On 5 Jan 2007 09:01:35 -0800, wrote:

On a recent trip to the US I bought a set of Nordost Blue Heaven RevII
speaker cables at a very good price. The only problem I have with them
is that they are not set up for biwiring. Does anyone have any
experience of changin connectors on Nordost flat cables. At face value
it should be straight forward but I don't want to start hacking the
cable about until I am sure what the procedure is. It could be a very
expensive mistake!!

Sell them to an audiophool and use any reasonably sturdy cable for
your speakers. It will sound exactly the same, and you'll have money
in your pocket.

Laurence Payne wrote:
On 5 Jan 2007 09:01:35 -0800, wrote:

On a recent trip to the US I bought a set of Nordost Blue Heaven RevII
speaker cables at a very good price. The only problem I have with them
is that they are not set up for biwiring. Does anyone have any
experience of changin connectors on Nordost flat cables. At face value
it should be straight forward but I don't want to start hacking the
cable about until I am sure what the procedure is. It could be a very
expensive mistake!!

Sell them to an audiophool and use any reasonably sturdy cable for
your speakers. It will sound exactly the same, and you'll have money
in your pocket.


Here here! And whilst you're at it, don't bother with bi-wiring, it
*can't* make a difference unless the cable is very thin in the first
place. 15 amp mains cable is perfectly good for normal domestic lengths.

S.

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
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On 5 Jan 2007 09:01:35 -0800, wrote:

On a recent trip to the US I bought a set of Nordost Blue Heaven RevII
speaker cables at a very good price. The only problem I have with them
is that they are not set up for biwiring. Does anyone have any
experience of changin connectors on Nordost flat cables. At face value
it should be straight forward but I don't want to start hacking the
cable about until I am sure what the procedure is. It could be a very
expensive mistake!!

Sell them to an audiophool and use any reasonably sturdy cable for
your speakers. It will sound exactly the same, and you'll have money
in your pocket.

**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain installations.


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www.rageaudio.com.au



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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 13:34:44 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:


**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain installations.

Can you design a system that cares? That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 13:34:44 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:


**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain installations.

Can you design a system that cares?

**?

That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

**What would be silly? Demanding that users restrict themselves to certain
cable lengths, or high impedance speakers? Or telling them that they may not
use electrostatics? IMO, that would be silly.


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www.rageaudio.com.au



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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:04:20 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:

**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain installations.

Can you design a system that cares?

**?

That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

**What would be silly? Demanding that users restrict themselves to certain
cable lengths, or high impedance speakers? Or telling them that they may not
use electrostatics? IMO, that would be silly.

Do Quad etc. recommend special low-inductance cables? Or merely warn
about using esoteric cables that might have excessively high
inductance?

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:04:20 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:

**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain
installations.

Can you design a system that cares?

**?

That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

**What would be silly? Demanding that users restrict themselves to certain
cable lengths, or high impedance speakers? Or telling them that they may
not
use electrostatics? IMO, that would be silly.

Do Quad etc. recommend special low-inductance cables?

**I have no idea, nor do I care. I _know_ that Quads benefit significantly
from the use of low inductance cables. I know this from direct, long
experience. I first discovered this, back in the 1970s, when using Tocord
with certain speakers (including Quads).

Or merely warn
about using esoteric cables that might have excessively high
inductance?

**You have it arse about. The idea is to select LOW inductance cables.
Nordost (amongst others) possess low inductance characteristics. Standard
speaker cables possess high inductance characteristics, by comparison.


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www.rageaudio.com.au



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Laurence Payne wrote:

"Trevor Wilson" wrote:

**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very low
inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain installations.

Can you design a system that cares?

**?

That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

**What would be silly? Demanding that users restrict themselves to certain
cable lengths, or high impedance speakers? Or telling them that they may not
use electrostatics? IMO, that would be silly.

Do Quad etc. recommend special low-inductance cables? Or merely warn
about using esoteric cables that might have excessively high
inductance?

It's high capacitance that may upset some amplifiers.

Amplifiers love inductance.

Graham

In article , Eeyore
wrote:


Amplifiers love inductance.

Not so. If the load is predominantly inductive then this increases the
power dissipation in the output devices compared with what would be
dissipated with a resistive load of the same magnitude. Also, it can shift
the IV locus into less safe portions of the SOA.

Slainte,

Jim

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Trevor Wilson wrote:

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 13:34:44 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:


**Actually, you don't know that. Nordost Blue Heaven cables are very
low inductance types and may be much more suitable for certain
installations.

Can you design a system that cares?

**?

That would be rather silly,
wouldn't it?

**What would be silly? Demanding that users restrict themselves to
certain cable lengths, or high impedance speakers? Or telling them that
they may not use electrostatics? IMO, that would be silly.

Can you name a maker who's amp isn't happy with standard cable of a
suitable loop resistance?

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