Help with cables

[Wannabubble]

I was reading the speaker cable face off and read this about parallel lines,

"Be cautioned however that biwiring and/or paralleling twin feeder cables does double the pair to pair capacitance. If the cable capacitance is excessively high to begin with (>100pf/ft) we advise against this practice."

I recently "made" my own cables and was wondering if this is some thing I should worry about.



It is Monster cable High-Performance CL3-Rated Speaker Cable

And also, what is the string in the cable for?

Thanks!

 

[Brian_the_King]

...And also, what is the string in the cable for?...

I'm sorry I'm not going to answer any of your questions, I've just always been really interested in the answer to that question as well. Who knows why Monster Cable does that!?

 

[jneutron]

I always use the string to strip the insulation.

John

 

[bane1202]

With low imedance circuits (eg speaker cable) capacitance is less of an issue.. I can guarantee that you would hear absolutely no difference if you separated those twisted pairs compared to leaving them as is

 

[Wannabubble]

do you mean completely seperate the wire by taking one away or just untwisting them?

Also what I have heard is that adding more wires (like I did) will lower the AWG. Is this true?

 

[bane1202]

any twisting or reorienting those wires will make basically no discernable difference for what you are doing.. and AWG stands for american wire gauge.. lower numbers basically = more conductor material (a 10 gauge wire is thicker than a 16 gauge wire) .. now theres a limit to how thick you want to make the conductors because the wire's own impedance will start to be a problem.. part of it depends on how thick the wire is and how long a wire you are using... but what you are doing is just fine unless you are using 200' cable runs