cheap subwoofer cable?

[gychang]

I just bought a used subwoofer.

Without starting a verbal war, is there a reasonable cost ($10) subwoofer cable somewhere?, or is the regular RCA cable work?

thanks,

gychang

 

[audio-kraut]

canare 4s11

 

[richie00boy]

Regular RCA cable is fine. Any cable will do as any capacitance issues only affect the high end, which will be well down in the subs stop-band.

 

[Sonusthree]

Regular RCA cable is fine. Any cable will do as any capacitance issues only affect the high end, which will be well down in the subs stop-band.

Hi,
Don't you mean inductance? I don't really understand this so would appreciate an explanation to clear things up.
I thought that capacitance in cables limits the low frequencies.
I thought that inductance would roll off the high frequency response.
This is what I understand from building active filters but how is this translated into interconnects?

Thanks, and sorry for the dumb question,
Martin.

 

[Glowbug]

Dayton Audio & Knukonceptz stuff works well. I'm currently swapping out all my cables to Knukonceptz, they work great and don't look too bad either

 

[richie00boy]

Don't you mean inductance?

No I mean capacitance.

I thought that capacitance in cables limits the low frequencies.
I thought that inductance would roll off the high frequency response.

No you have those mixed up.

If you imagine the cable is like a capacitor across the output of your source, it will load down the output rolling high frequencies off. Also, as output impedance also rises with frequency, the effect quickly gets worse.

 

[gychang]

Regular RCA cable is fine. Any cable will do as any capacitance issues only affect the high end, which will be well down in the subs stop-band.

sounds good, thanks for the tip. Someday I will have to try a double blind test....

gychang