Actaly, a lower resistance in cables is better in case of low resistance multyway speakers, and low impedance output power amplifyers.
Sound degradation is worse if power amp ( and cables ) is giveing greater resistance to the speakers. All that goes for multyway speakers that are useing coils and capacitors for frequency range separation.
BTW all voice-coil speakers usualy have strong resonant feature. That sounds like ringing that occurs each time a specific frequency is reproduced. Putting resistance betwean speaker system and power amp makes things more complicated, and usualy results in strong ringging and wow-bas effect. Output stage of power amplifyer can reduce oscilations and ringing only if cable resitance is very low.
I usualy use cables that are 1/50 or less of nominal speaker resistance. It makes stereo effects more accurate and gives more detailed sound. It goes for Hi Fidelity music production. If someone is listening music from 96kbps mp3 or lower bitrate there is NO NEED for any expensive cables amps and speakers.
From my expirience lower resistance cables sound better, but you can blow speakers. High resstance cables sound ugly but usualy protect speakers long enough (to the end of party):)
I do not know anything of oxidation of contacts and how it effects the sound, but I guess it is degradateing.
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Actaly, a lower resistance in cables is better in case of low resistance multyway speakers, and low impedance output power amplifyers.
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Sound degradation is worse if power amp ( and cables ) is giveing greater resistance to the speakers. All that goes for multyway speakers that are useing coils and capacitors for frequency range separation.
BTW all voice-coil speakers usualy have strong resonant feature. That sounds like ringing that occurs each time a specific frequency is reproduced. Putting resistance betwean speaker system and power amp makes things more complicated, and usualy results in strong ringging and wow-bas effect. Output stage of power amplifyer can reduce oscilations and ringing only if cable resitance is very low.
I usualy use cables that are 1/50 or less of nominal speaker resistance. It makes stereo effects more accurate and gives more detailed sound. It goes for Hi Fidelity music production. If someone is listening music from 96kbps mp3 or lower bitrate there is NO NEED for any expensive cables amps and speakers.
From my expirience lower resistance cables sound better, but you can blow speakers. High resstance cables sound ugly but usualy protect speakers long enough (to the end of party)
I do not know anything of oxidation of contacts and how it effects the sound, but I guess it is degradateing.
Can I have thet thing in my trashcan? :)