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Author Re: Are moving-coil speakers & crossover networks inductive loads
Salmon Egg

2007-04-17, 5:25 pm

On 4/17/07 2:23 AM, in article 462497d7_2@news.tm.net.my, "TE Chea"
<4ws@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have a inductance meter, I suspect these 2 things are
> inductive, because a pair of capacitive ( 60 +ve & 60 -ve
> wires are interwoven ) speaker cable ( made by UK's
> Monitor Audio in 1983 ) can produce less distortion from
> the same m-c spkrs & amplifier than straight ( not inter
> woven ) spkr cables can, such that FM broadcasts sounds
> more like CD`s.
> I presume this is because this cable's capacitance reduce m-c
> spkr & crossover networks' inductance, so power factor (
> between amplifier & spkrs ) is nearer to 1.
> Does any1 here know better ?
>
>

A speaker will have the equivalent of leakage reactance. Ideally, the air
driven by the voice cone will generate an acoustic wave who's load shows up
as resistance on the voice coil terminals. But speakers are not ideal.

For the crossover networks, it probably depends upon how implemented. Again,
an ideal crossover will look resistive.

Bill
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.


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