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Is rewiring worth it considering...


My question surrounds rewiring. Why bother?

Let me explain my point by following a signal path:

First, a nice thick speaker cable connects to the terminals. But the second it crosses the terminals threshold, a thin little circular spade is sandwiched between 2 screws which is attached to a rather thin wire. This thin wire goes to the crossover (again attached with a thin spade) which is then distributed across a circuit board that is even thinner than the thin wire, into caps and inductors with non copper ends, etc.

From here more thin stainless steel spades to wires and onto the actual drivers, again spades and then an very thin wire into the actual driver itself where the wire spun around the voice coil is thinner than every part of the signal path so far.

So, long winded, but here is my point: why bother rewiring when all you will end up with is a point where the internal wiring will get very thin and you cant do anything about it?

Isn't this akin to having a 40 lane highway bottleneck into a 2 lane road when it reaches the woofer's voice coil?

idfnl
douglas_schroeder
1,824 posts
 
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost
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jmcgrogan2
6,346 posts
 
First of all, the thickness of a wire has nothing to do with sound quality. The thin wire inside your speaker may very well sound better than your garden hose speaker cable.

Secondly, you can re-wire inside your speaker, I know many who have. Some have even taken the crossover outside the speaker cabinet and modified it with better caps, etc.

Lastly, speaker cables do make a difference, as do interconnects and power cords. Most cannot understand the logic, but hearing is believing.

Cheers,
John
idfnl OP
12 posts
 
The problem is the logic of it though.

I'm not saying there is no difference between cables, but can't anyone explain why? You'd think the millions of $ spent on cables would lead to a scientific explanation, because once the signal reaches the amp or speaker, etc, its a tiny little solid steel wire or a circuit board.

Especially for a speaker: how can it make a difference when in the end it becomes a strand of hair in thickness wrapped around a magnet?

Is it possible that there is no scientific explanation because this is simply a farce and people are spending $10,000 on a meter of cable that a bunch of cat5 wired together would equal?

In the end, I am trying to decide whether to rewire my speakers, but to take all this time and investment in time and money and have it be a waste of energy would suck, I want to know why this would make a difference considering that in the end its a tiny little thin wire.
face
516 posts
 
The description of the internals of your speaker does not fit all. Many use quality binding posts, soldered internal connections, etc... Maybe it's time for some upgrading.

As for the thickness of voice coil wires...try using that wire from your amp to your speaker terminals or vice versa, replace the voice coil wire with the heavy gauge wire that you're using from your amp to the binding posts...let me know how that works out for you.
hifitime
715 posts
 
A lot of people use the word theory for their explanation.A
dealer that sold high end audio gear was trying to sell me
large speaker,and power cords that were short and had very
large gauge wire.He told me that the signal was restricted by
passing through a small connection.He said I would be way
better off using a 1 meter 1/2" plus power cord.He said it
works that way in "theory".When I asked him how much I was
loosing since it all was squeezing through the amps little
fuse,he was silent.No theoretical explanation there.Don't
think about the small thin short connections,and enjoy your music.
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