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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
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Posted: Sun Aug 12 01:46:28 1984
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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.