Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - Tom Dawson

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Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT?

I'm hoping for something flat enough to run under an area rug.
Plus, for the closed box subs, which I'll make two of myself each with 8 Audiobahn Alum 12's, I was considering powering each off of a Crown K2 bridged (into about 6 ohms) and it occurred to me that, when set for high gain, the K2 bridged might offer enough excess gain so that a small amount of feedback around the speaker cable could be used as part of a passive xover working as a quasi-ELF between 16 and 40-50 hz. One LP pole would be purely passive before the noninverting Ch1 input of the K2, and the other would be taken as feedback from a small gauge 'sense' wire run from the 'noninverting' bridged output through a series RC network to the 'inverting' balanced Ch1 input with each SW speaker cable run.
The effective feedback would range from almost nothing below 16hz to about 8db @40 hz and possibly as much as 26 db at 300hz, although the fb would be reduced above this frequency and could additionally be easily adjusted down by modifying the passive values.
To avoid equilibrium destroying brontosaurian blasts of infrasonic oscillation through the speakers during the tweaking in process, the speakers would not have to be actually connected while the passive xover was being dialed in.
This potentially could be a very nice approach to doing a HT sw crossover, since it would be cheap, passive, and the feedback around the power amp would more than double the effective damping factor at the speaker terminals if it worked out.

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Topic - Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - Tom Dawson 20:10:35 08/16/01 (5)

Re: Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - Tuneman 06:56:17 09/14/01 (0)

Re: Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - wilks 01:44:59 09/10/01 (0)

Thanks for the responses. - Tom Dawson 09:25:55 08/20/01 (0)

Re: Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - Estes 05:05:27 08/18/01 (0)

Re: Is there a good low cost 6 - 10 AWG speaker cable for HT? - shawngharvey 20:46:58 08/17/01 (0)

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