|   When bi wiring should a lower gauge be used for the highs? | Dust Cover
Apr 22, 2001 8:23 AM | | On my Leg Sig III's the book alludes to this. |
| re: When bi wiring should a lower gauge be used for the highs? | Dick Hertz
Apr 22, 2001 9:55 AM | | Yes, I would use the lighter gauge wire for the highs. Everybody knows that the low frequency electrons are larger than the high frequency electrons, so larger wire is necessary for the woofers. If you used a wire that was too large with the tweeters, all those small high frequency electrons would get lost and the treble would be all messed up. |
| I screwed up the question but you answered it properly | Dust Cover
Apr 22, 2001 10:36 AM | | I did mean lighter or less thick for the highs. Next time I will finish my coffee before posting , THX. |
| Ah Mr. Cover, I think Mr. Hertz was yanking your chain..nt | Marbles
Apr 22, 2001 10:52 AM | | nt |
| Yanking his chain? | Dick Hertz
Apr 22, 2001 11:41 AM | | Well, maybe I embellished things with a few pieces of fluff, but the gist of the answer was there. |
| My Dynaudios only have two binding posts | eric the unlogged
Apr 22, 2001 6:34 PM | | How do I squeeze the big electrons and the small electrons through the same wire? Should I be running bigger wire, or can I buy 'smart electrons' somewhere? (Radio Shack???). |
| Funny you should ask. | Dick Hertz
Apr 23, 2001 7:00 AM | | Send your electrons to Hertz University for Dumb Electrons. We'll train your electrons to efficiently move through even the smallest wires, while maintaining fidelity, time, and phase congruity. Don't waste your time with dumb electrons when you can send your to Hertz University for Dumb Electrons. |
| Fidelity at College??? | Marbles
Apr 23, 2001 7:57 AM | | My electrons want HI-Infedelity at your University. I Dynaudio about you, but that is part of the college experience.
I just went down to Electrons'R'Us and picked up a can of Big Bass Electrons, and a can of Teeny Weeny High frequency electrons, and sprayed the cables and contacts good.
It seems to have done the trick. |
| Hehehehehe..LOL Thanks for the chuckle nt | Marbles
Apr 22, 2001 10:50 AM | | nt |
| an electron is an electron is an electron | mr physics
Apr 22, 2001 12:33 PM | | |
| Aren't TUBE electrons less distorted than SS electrons? (nt) | Dougman
Apr 22, 2001 5:51 PM | | (nt) |
| Euphonically, yes. | Dick Hertz
Apr 22, 2001 6:22 PM | | Tubes do this by actually splitting the electrons into little mini nuclear explosions which blow off the edgier quarks on the copper atoms. |
| ROTFLMAO nt | Marbles
Apr 22, 2001 7:21 PM | | nt |
| No, just smarter | DustyChalk
Apr 23, 2001 1:40 PM | | SS electrons -- more accurately, electrons travelling down speaker wire as a result of a signal amplified by solid state electronics -- tend to have more "entropy" (why? is left as an exercise for the reader -- it's pretty straightforward actually), whereas electrons in a wavefront amplified by tube electronics tend to be more homogeneous, and therefore end up sounding less distorted. |
| I sure HOPE you're joking, because I sure was -nt | Dougman
Apr 23, 2001 2:51 PM | | nt |
| Oh, sorry, left out the... (-: (NoMsg) | DustyChalk
Apr 23, 2001 6:45 PM | | |
| Hahaha.. that's funny! Thanks. nt | DueN
Apr 23, 2001 5:06 AM | | . |
| Yes. (nt) | HTguy
Apr 22, 2001 12:14 PM | | |
| What happened to all those powered speakers back in the 80's? | waVeman
Apr 22, 2001 1:30 PM | | This isn't exactly relevant to your question, but more for adding to your brain's, er, trivia info center.
Back in the early 80's, Advent built a powered version of their Large Advent (it used an acoustic suspension 10" woofer and 1" parabolic dome tweeter. I am not sure if they actually sold it or it was just an engineering exercise). It used separate amps for the tweeter and woofer: the woofer's was rated at 75 W/RMS, the tweeter's had 25W/RMS.
I'm not sure if that would mean your highs would need wire 1/3 as thin as the lows; but obviously, it doesn't need to be AS thick. (This might be one of those linear vs. exponential things, which is why I am not sure). Peace out. |
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