{"id":104,"date":"2020-01-27T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:45:00","slug":"use-an-instrument-cable-as-a-speaker-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/music-equipment\/use-an-instrument-cable-as-a-speaker-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I use an instrument cable as a speaker cable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Either you are new to home entertainment and are just building your first device or a veteran, choosing the right form of speaker cables is important in order to make sure that you get the best output from your equipment.<\/p>\n

Only’ cheap’ home entertainment systems are relatively expensive, so scrubbing and saving is not significant.<\/p>\n

That being said, do not throw your money into the most expensive speaker cables you can find as you can use an instrument cable as a speaker cable.\"expensive<\/p>\n

Copper or silver<\/h2>\n

Many speaker cables are made of copper because they are a very good electric current conductor. There are also silver wires, which are even better conductors than copper.<\/p>\n

But silver is clearly a much costlier commodity, which can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars for silver cables.<\/p>\n

Many people cannot tell the difference between speaker cable and instrument cable, but there are also cables made of silver plated copper to add to the mystery.<\/p>\n

This is an ideal solution that provides excellent efficiency, while remaining economical for most people.<\/p>\n

Size Matters<\/h2>\n

For general, the shorter the speaker cable travels, the easier it is. The cable’s length or thickness may also affect performance.\"the<\/p>\n

Thicker cables tend to maintain the signal over longer distances and may also lead to reducing the resistance to a fuller and richer tone.<\/p>\n

Average users would find 16 gage speaker cables perfectly fine for their needs; however, serious audiophiles typically like the thicker cable extra and use 12 gage cables for surround sound speakers and 10 gage for subwoofs.<\/p>\n

If I use connectors<\/h2>\n

The cable ends can be connected to connectors such as bananas and spade terminals, to make it easier to connect to the source device and speakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many purists claim that adding some form of connector would degrade the signal, if only in small quantities. I prefer simply trim the bare end of the cable so often that corrosion is avoided and a safe, fresh connection is guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Either you are new to home entertainment and are just building your first device or a veteran, choosing the right form of speaker cables is important in order to make sure that you get the best output from your equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.investinbsr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}