Speaker cables

Tony Palmer · Post by **Tony Palmer** » 28 Jan 2000 5:30 am

OK, I can't believe I just found this out. For those of you who use a preamp/power amp to seperate speakers (such as a ProFex/DPC750 and 112E's), you're not supposed to use guitar cords to connect the speakers to the amp.
I "knew" this, but never bothered to use speaker cables, but have always been disappointed by a seemingly lack of top volume.
Yesterday I changed to heavy duty speaker cables and wow! here's my volume back!
I guess the small audio wire in the middle of a guitar cord is not meant to handle the heavy (350) wattage that these power amps can deliver.

Tony Rankin · Post by **Tony Rankin** » 28 Jan 2000 9:33 am

This is an interesting bit of information. I wonder what Mike Brown and the Peavey folks have to say about this and what they recommend. Hey Mike, what kind of cables are you using?

Rick Tyson · Post by **Rick Tyson** » 28 Jan 2000 9:53 am

Tony
The heavier the cables from your amp to speakers the better. A good friend and soundperson
pointed this out to me years ago and I have always used the heaviest cables I could use for speakers . I would use jumper cables if I could get them hooked up

Its all a matter of resistence in cable wire .
Also I have used George-Ls cables for all my line level signals from Profex to Amp & really noticed the difference

Rick

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