In article , Serge Auckland
wrote:
Bob Latham wrote:


The change in "total" resistance comes from the doubling of the 'speaker
cables, and therefore a halving of the total resistance. As each
'speaker cable now carries a lower current, the already small loss down
each 'speaker cable becomes smaller still.

Serge: Are you assuming the two cables are being connected together at
*both* ends? If so, I'd agree with what you say. But if not, the statement
that the "total" resistance halves leads to the question - which device in
the system experiences a current that passes through this "total"
resistance?

I can see that the amp would be such a device. But not the individual
speaker units.

[snip]

There's no mystery to any of this, it's another example of the hi-fi
fraternity accepting what some mags and shops tell them as truth,
without any engineering rigour being applied.

With this I am inclined to agree. The curious thing is that I did the
webpages I've referred to back in 2002. Perhaps I should try writing a
magazine article on this sometime as it continues to be a 'mystery' in the
magazines... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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