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Do Power Cords improve sound?
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<blockquote data-quote="Atjan" data-source="post: 584892" data-attributes="member: 2323"><p>I'd love to know if anyone have ever burnt a speaker cable while playing music in a home environment. In fact, I very much doubt anyone has every caused a perceivable increase in speaker cable temperature due to playing excessively loud. </p><p>Essentially that's all AWG is trying to achieve - maintain the conductor temperature below the thermal limit of the insulation material. I've heard plenty of speakers being cooked, but never of wire being burnt. </p><p></p><p>So if you exceed the rated limit for a short space of time (a minute or so) and not radically (meaning not by multiples of the rated limit - then the wire becomes a fuse), you would have a momentary raise in conductor resistance due to increased temperature. Once the conductor cools down again, you'd be back to OK again. </p><p></p><p>Thick cables does look cooler than thin ones though. :dop:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atjan, post: 584892, member: 2323"] I'd love to know if anyone have ever burnt a speaker cable while playing music in a home environment. In fact, I very much doubt anyone has every caused a perceivable increase in speaker cable temperature due to playing excessively loud. Essentially that's all AWG is trying to achieve - maintain the conductor temperature below the thermal limit of the insulation material. I've heard plenty of speakers being cooked, but never of wire being burnt. So if you exceed the rated limit for a short space of time (a minute or so) and not radically (meaning not by multiples of the rated limit - then the wire becomes a fuse), you would have a momentary raise in conductor resistance due to increased temperature. Once the conductor cools down again, you'd be back to OK again. Thick cables does look cooler than thin ones though. :dop: [/QUOTE]
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