Understanding the Speaker Impedance Specification

[PENG]

They’ll find something else to BS.

I hate to agree but I have admit you are most likely going to be right.

 

[killdozzer]

For the sake of learning and understanding; let's say you take a very long speaker cable, but you completely overdo it to make it more obvious - not 6 feet but 60 feet longer than recommended for the gauge. Signal starts deteriorating, weakening, and you really drive this into the red, what are the expected effects? How does a weaken signal sounds like? Is it some hum, noise, static, like radio, does it start losing lows or highs...?

I’d like to do a test but wouldn’t go buying cable just for the sake of it.

 

[killdozzer]

A! Found it:

At that point, the RLC losses alone of a typical 12AWG zip cord cable would attribute to over 11dB of attenuation of the upper frequencies, not to mention over 3dB of insertion loss!

So, the result would be a sound that is quiet and lacking in highs, right?

Here: Speaker Cable Length

 

[everettT]

For the sake of learning and understanding; let's say you take a very long speaker cable, but you completely overdo it to make it more obvious - not 6 feet but 60 feet longer than recommended for the gauge. Signal starts deteriorating, weakening, and you really drive this into the red, what are the expected effects? How does a weaken signal sounds like? Is it some hum, noise, static, like radio, does it start losing lows or highs...?

I’d like to do a test but wouldn’t go buying cable just for the sake of it.

Low volume, cutting out etc. If continuous at attempted high levels, depending on the amp, damage.

 

[killdozzer]

cutting out

Would this happen iteratively?

 

[everettT]

Would this happen iteratively?

I certainly can be. The louder you try to go the worse it gets and you enter damage territory.