Talk:Speaker wire

message: Does anyone have a better close up picture of the stripped wire?--Light current 15:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Sufficient thickness of gold plate is useful to prevent troublesome increase of contact resistance due to corrosion in some conditions, such as damp locations, or where extremely low noise and maximum reliability are important, such as recording studio microphone leads.
However gold flashing on consumer grade connectors is normally a marketing exercise, with no significant real world benefit for 3 reasons. On such equipment the plating is too thin to be effective. And even the effects of thicker gold plate would be insignificant compared to the noise and reliabilty issues of more or less all indoor domestic equipment.
Tabby (talk) 21:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold plating explained 

message: "in many European Countries the banana plug is coincidentally the same plug used for live electrical outlets (with 230 volts)."
no! But banana plugs do fit mains sockets in some euro countries.
Tabby (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Banana plug safety

message: Given the standing arguments about audio equipment, it would help the quality of the article to refer to multiple sources on effects of electrical characteristics on audio performance.  I'm tagging to request more references; if you disagree, please explain before untagging. chrylis (talk) 20:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perennial audiophile controversy 

message: One of the recent references added to the article is from 6moons.com. Is that a blog? Is it reliable? I see no author listed at the page http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/interconnects/interconnects_3.html. Perhaps the OCC can be brought into the article from another source. Binksternet (talk) 02:57, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  6moons.com = reliable? 

message: The topic of "speaker cable" is greater than the technology involved.  It's big business, it has it's own marketing process and culture, it's a subject of much hobbyist effort and consumer activity by people of various value sets and history.  It is a disservice and incomplete bias to view them as purely technical devices.   We should find a reasonable way to incorporate all of these aspects into the information where there are those who wish to include it. 
This is why I believe we should make it a priority to cleanly separate purely technical discussions and other aspects.  It alternates between technology and argument, between general and consumer issues and expert opinions being taken incompletely or mis-characterized.   We may even need to create separate sections for broadcast, sound reinforcement, public address and home use. 
Even before my edits this article was a mixed message mess, not just with biases and mixing of technology and opinion but even with some technical aspects which were repeated in various sections.  I suggest that your issues with my edits, and my issues with existing content would be best served by separating the issues. 
Best,
Erik  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eriksq (talk • contribs) 14:16, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not as interested in separating technical aspects with "consumer issues", as this opens the door to snake oil claims, the pushing of tiny (inaudible) improvements through very expensive processes, and so on. I think the article should stick to technical issues. Binksternet (talk) 21:16, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical 

message: Much of what is written here is general discussion about the electrical characteristics of conductors in general and could apply equally to small signal conductors.  We should rely on the relevant wikipedia sections to cover this instead of repeating that material here and/or consolidate information that is relevant to small signal and speaker level conductors.  The charts however are very useful, specific, and relevant. 
More relevant to the technical aspect of speaker cables may be a discussion of the audio signal transmission between the amplifier, wiring and speaker which would illuminate and replace the broad claims of audibility and home audio environments.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eriksq (talk • contribs) 14:30, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impedance 

message: Most of the world uses metric measures so please can the metric system be the primary unit. If feet must be used then that should be secondary.
MalcolmBoura (talk) 14:26, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: MOS:STYLEVAR says don't change the established article style except for a good reason, in cases where two styles are both acceptable. Imperial units were the first units brought into this article, and that is why they are listed first. Binksternet (talk) 15:03, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metric