[henrylr]

Hi all,

I have a pair of XLO ultra 6 cable that is longer than needed. They have XLO spades on each end and one end has pigtails with XLO spades for speakers that have two sets of binding posts. I really don't want to shorten the cable so I was going to coil the extra length behind each speaker.

If you not familiar with the cable, it is made of many very small separate strands of OFHC copper in PTFE coating and each group in covered with PTFE. Is there a problem coiling about 5 feet in about a 1 foot diameter coil? The cables won't be near any other cables or or AC power cords.

Thanks,
henrylr

[Russell Dawkins]

Technically, you are creating an inductive loop which would act as a low-pass filter but in the real world 5' coiled in a 1' diameter loop would have absolutely zero audible consequences, as the effect would be so extremely slight and at such a high (ultrasonic) frequency.

[Devil Doc]

Just a mechanical tip: Wire comes off a roll. It's important that you coil the wire as it came off the roll. You can do this by just dangling the wire and coiling it naturally. Don't force it. Otherwise you chance damaging the wire. I used to have a lot of trouble with not so helpful folks coiling mike wire.

Doc

[henrylr]

Thanks for the replies. It coils very easily and seems to have a natural coil direction even though I bought over 15 years ago.

henrylr

[Speedskater]

Technically, you are creating an inductive loop which would act as a low-pass filter but in the real world 5' coiled in a 1' diameter loop would have absolutely zero audible consequences, as the effect would be so extremely slight and at such a high (ultrasonic) frequency.

The XLO speaker cables all appear to be twisted pairs or twisted quads. Because the field of the Send conductor will be canceled by the opposite field of the Return conductor, there is no inductive loop at all to worry about.

[Russell Dawkins]

The XLO speaker cables all appear to be twisted pairs or twisted quads. Because the field of the Send conductor will be canceled by the opposite field of the Return conductor, there is no inductive loop at all to worry about.

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