My nan used to use mains cable for an FM radio aerial. It worked really well
until our cousin visited and saw a cable with no plug on it, so promptly put
one on it and plugged it in.... BANG!!! No more HiFi.
If you want to use mains cable as speaker cable can I suggest you label it
clearly? :o)
Magic
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From: nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: MD: Mains cable as speaker cable
>
> G'day
>
> The other day, someone mentioned using mains cable as speaker cable,
because
> its so damn cheap. Is anyone using this setup?
>
> I've heard things about the quality of interconnects between amp and
> CD/MD/other stuff making a difference to sound quality, and simliar things
> about speaker wire, and 99.99999% oxygen free copper wire or some crap.
> There must be some truth in it, if people are willing to pay hundreds and
> hundreds of $ for a few metres of speaker wire.. Anyway, does anyone know
if
> there'd be an appreciable difference between reasonably cheap but "thick"
> speaker wire from an audio shop and mains cable from a hardware shop?
>
> thanks,
> nick
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