Victor
Well-known member
Hi George (TjeerT),
First of all welcome to the MLC
There is absolutely no doubt that the awkward impedance characteristics of electrostats easily expose the differences between speaker cables, however that does not imply that expensive is good although there may be a loose relationship?
My suggestion would be that if your MLs are less than 4 metres apart with your amp in the centre (best place for it), you could use 2 metre runs per channel of e.g. NAIM A4 or A5 cable. The spacer in the middle guarantees low capacitance so it should be very amplifier friendly and stat friendly. Similarly the large CSA gives low resistance and the cable will also have reasonably low inductance. By halving the cable length - since they're usually sold in 3-5m runs - you halve the characteristics R/L/C mentioned earlier. This can give a very beneficial result.
They sound excellent by the way- and I've compared mine with expensive single/bi-wires !
Just my $0.02 worth.......hope this is helpful...............Victor.
First of all welcome to the MLC
There is absolutely no doubt that the awkward impedance characteristics of electrostats easily expose the differences between speaker cables, however that does not imply that expensive is good although there may be a loose relationship?
My suggestion would be that if your MLs are less than 4 metres apart with your amp in the centre (best place for it), you could use 2 metre runs per channel of e.g. NAIM A4 or A5 cable. The spacer in the middle guarantees low capacitance so it should be very amplifier friendly and stat friendly. Similarly the large CSA gives low resistance and the cable will also have reasonably low inductance. By halving the cable length - since they're usually sold in 3-5m runs - you halve the characteristics R/L/C mentioned earlier. This can give a very beneficial result.
They sound excellent by the way- and I've compared mine with expensive single/bi-wires !
Just my $0.02 worth.......hope this is helpful...............Victor.