RE: RF Ground Connections - Wire Type and AUDIO

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Actually I worked with professional audio (home / card) for about a year,
and through extensive tests using spectrum analyzers etc..., stranded
speaker wire outperforms solid speaker wire by quite a large margin.  Solid
speaker wire had a large attenuation of the higher frequencies (in
particular cymbol hits etc...)

Dan

> >	I'm going to have to disagree with your assessment.  For high
> >voltage transients, stranded or braided wire outperforms solid wire in
> all
> >instances.  This is the primary reason you use braided wire for lightning
> >protection in house security systems etc...
> 
> Ok Maaaybee, but i dont know much about these things.
> 
>   Another example is the use of
> >stranded wire vs. solid in audio applications.
> >
> 
> I really doubt that there is even any difference since that audio does not
> 
> go above 20khz, which is much lower frequency than an RF ground will see.
> 
> And im guessing they use stranded for the fact that the wire will run
> around 
> corners, up walls, ect.. so that its easier to do this!  And FYI one of
> the 
> newer ideas for speaker wiring is FLAT SOLID, but flexible speaker wire.
> 
> Steve Ward
> 
> >	Dan
> >
> 
>