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Old 12th Jul 2020, 5:58 pm   #1638
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

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Originally Posted by Craig Sawyers View Post
In any event, it is being fed by an amplifier with hundreds, or thousands, of solder joints, and a smorgasbord of dissimilar materials in every transistor, resistor and capacitor. And feeds a loudspeaker with a crossover, and a voice coil whose resistance changes quite dramatically with power level (a process called thermal compression). And gives typically 0.3% to >1% harmonic distortion.

So the bit of wire connecting the real world amp to a real world speaker is to first (and n'th order) irrelevant. It needs to be good enough, but no more.

Craig
The Odins do look nice though. I like the lump of wood on each.
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