Description

This article about the speaker cable takes an approach in material science and electrodynamics to answer questions like:

• How hard can it be to make a good speaker cable? Reasonably low resistance and any
  simple cable would do the job as good as any expensive high end cable – or maybe not?
• What are the most important characteristics of a speaker cable with respect to degradation
  of the signal?

Areas that are covered:

• Radial geometric symmetry
• Cable metallurgy
• Cable construction and inductance
• Cable capacitance
• Cable resistance
• Signal losses
• Phase coherence
• Electromechanical modulation
• Cable connectors
• Break-in
• Cable lifters