I know, I'm of the opinion that instead of worrying about dialing in a dead on replica of the amp that's being modeled and more worried about just getting a decent sound that I can play with. But I'm an electronics nerd (at least I used to be more so of one) and this is interesting stuff to talk about.Anyway, the point is that people can get so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they don't stop to think if they should
I know what you mean. If I use a cable, things get a lot louder. If I don't use a cable, I can't get any useful volume at all.If I use a cable, things generally tend to sound a little louder...
That's because they have different capacitances. Nothing more, nothing less. "Low capacitance" covers quite a bit of ground.
Thanks to the special cable design and the wide conductor spacing it transmits amplified signals with a maximum of punch and definition.
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Well, yes .. and No! It's really about the distance the signal has to travel - just like AC power cables. 100' of 12-gauge 120v 3-core will have far less voltage loss than would 100' of 18-gauge 120v 3-core. Same rule applies to speaker cables over distance. I run 14-gauge Speakons on my PA, with distances under 50' from amp. It's not about passing the current, it's about signal loss.Another thing I had the experience of finding out was that SPEAKER CABLES make a difference too!Happened twice...once in the studio and once when I got my vox night train. On both occasions, there was just something missing....couldn't tell what it was, and when we changed SPEAKER cables, a whole world opened up. On both occasions, the speaker cables were thin and you could tell they weren't heavy duty (including the one that CAME with the night train wtf! :S), so i'm guessing they just couldn't pass the current needed.
Wikipedia said:Many supposedly audible differences in speaker wire can be attributed to listener bias or the placebo effect. Listener bias is enhanced in no small part by the popular manufacturers' practice of making claims about their products either with no valid engineering or scientific basis, or of no real-world significance. Many manufacturers catering to audiophiles (as well as those supplying less expensive retail markets) also make unmeasurable, if poetic, claims about their wire sounding open, dynamic, or smooth. To justify these claims, many cite electrical properties such as skin effect, characteristic impedance of the cable, or resonance, which are generally little understood by consumers. None of these has any measurable effect at audio frequencies, though each matters at radio frequencies.
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Funny, it had quite a different effect on me...Holy mother of god! This has the same effect on the male brain as a good, Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick in the head.
Yep +1.Another thing to consider is that the roll-off in extreme high frequencies might actually be desirable. So higher capacitance doesn't automatically mean crappy cable. Gilbert uses (and Hendrix used) a _coiled_ cable, and he sounds all right to me. Myself, I put together my guitar cables myself out of neutrik plugs and Mogami cable I buy from Markertek. Cheap and good.
I think I pulled a hamstring watching it....Funny, it had quite a different effect on me...
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