On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:26:37 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:

Not a first order effect, admittedly, but thin wire is more inductive
length-for-length than thick wire. The main factor, though as I said
is to bring the characteristic impedance down closer to that of the
speaker hanging on the far end in order to flatten the response.
Mostly that involves increasing the capacitance - for which you need
thicker wires closer together. This geometry change in itself lowers
the inductance.

**Much like the old Tocord, which allegedly possessed a characteristic
impedance of around 8 Ohms. It played merry Hell with Naim amps. Hugely
capacitive stuff.


If it was 8 ohm cable, and it had an 8 ohm speaker hanging on the end
then it wasn't capacitive at all - it was purely resistive. Cables of
much greater impedance than the load are always inductive, and it was
this that Naim amps relied upon for their albeit marginal stability.

d

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