Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Monster cable [video coax as speaker cable] Message-ID: <2944@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 01:46:28 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2944 Posted: Sun Aug 12 01:46:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 02:29:35 EDT References: <481@nmtvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 Ordinary RG 59/U type video coax does NOT make good speaker cable. Its centre conductor is equivalent to about 22AWG wire, and will have the same loss of signal over distance as el-cheapo speaker wire. Video coax is designed for one thing: If you feed a signal into one end of it from a source with an impedance of 75 ohms, and you terminate the far end of the coax with 75 ohms, the signal can be sent over a considerable distance and arrive at the other end relatively undistorted - no echoes. It probably has higher capacitance per foot than ordinary interconnecting cable, and higher resistance than speaker cable, so it does both jobs more poorly than cable designed for that task.