bundled signal wire


I know that power cords should not be coiled.   How about signal wire?  Inside my boutique preamp, surplus lead wires are bundled on top of the Jensen transformers.  Will this impact the sound in a significant way?  
steakster

Showing 1 response by pragmasi

As someone has already said the wire doesn’t look like it’s coiled it’s folded so it’s not creating an inductor. If the wire was working as an antenna, picking up noise from the PSU you’d hear it.
If you’re proficient with a soldering iron then you could tidy it up... if you’re not then a dry joint would be a bigger problem than 4" of wire.
Essentially these wires are just an extension of the interconnects so really it’s a question of whether you’d bother chopping 4" off an interconnect. If it was me I’d just put the cover back on the amp.