i need bright wires because my tweeters are slow (soft fabric dome). My source is warm, my amp is warm. so kelangan ko bawiin sa wires. whatcha tink?
car audio nga pala to. Don't worry about bass, i need the wires for my tweeters only. I'm running them full active, meaning my tweets have a separate amp.
Wires can only pass through a signal with what is termed insertion losses. It has no amplification power whatsoever. So if your source and your tweeters cannot reproduce the signals you want, there is little merit to saying "puedeng bawiin sa wires" as I shall elaborate later. Wires cannot produce something that's not there to begin with.
Wires can only attenuate due to impedances at various frequency bandwidth. It cannot amplify. What people consider as bright sounding cable actually have low inductance values to offer lower impedance at high frequencies but has the effect of attenuating the lows so the mids and highs sound louder relative to attenuated lows. Exotic and expensive wire makers do play around with the RLC characteristics of their products to make wires that act like fixed equalizer to vary the impedances across the audio spectrum. Wires are either transparent (the least possible RLC values) or colored (bright, dull, dark, etc) due to variously altered RLC values.
If you have a bi-amped set-up where a separate amp feeds the tweets, (presumably using the right active electronic crossover), there'd be no harm using a bright cable (one with unusually low inductance) to the tweets, since the bass signals are already absent in the signal path to the tweeter. But whether bright or not, the speaker cable will only let through the mids and highs up to the highest that your amp can deliver and what your tweeter can drive. It cannot add to nor amplify highs if they're weak or not there to begin with.
Having said that, it's also possible that the wires you are currently using have high inductances that may be attentuating the high frequencies. Or they may exhibit high impedances everywhere due to age, poor or corroded contacts. So there would be some advantages to using low inductance cables. (Or just about any new cable properly soldered or terminated. Sometimes, people perceive differences using expensive cables precisely because their older cables were plainly old, corroded or not properly terminated. A cheaper cable might have elicited the same impression.
) But, and this is a big BUT. The effect of lowering the inductance in cables usually start in the 19khz-20khz going up with a +0.1db benefit. The human ear already has difficulty correctly identifying differences in the 1db range. So, not only do I doubt if a 0.1db improvement at 19khz is humanly audible, but I also doubt if low inductance cables are available below P100/meter.
And if your amp or tweeter is already rolling off at -3db at , say, 18khz, not even the lowest inductance cable on earth will make any audible difference. And since this is a car system, cable length would not even be an issue.
Maybe a tweeter with a higher sensitivity rating will help you. I think that would be a more cost effective alternative than getting expensive low inductance cables. But that shouldn't dissuade you from indulging with cables. This is a highly subjective hobby. You could very well find one that suits your ears. Just my thoughts.
