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Old 6th Apr 2019, 3:10 pm   #639
Craig Sawyers
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Default Re: Audiophoolery?

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I don't think it is down to resistive losses in the cable. If we had 1 metre of 1mm^2 wire, the loop resistance is 0.034 ohms. So even if you had 10A transients that would drop 0.34V in 240, or 0.014%.

By comparison 12AWG would drop about 0.1V or 0.004%
Er... I make those 0.14% and 0.04%. Still negligible of course, which is your point.
You're right. I divided the resistance and not the voltage drop!

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