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Dielectrics and such...??

Knowing a little about something can be dangerous! Having read about poor dielectric designs, static fields, EMI…etc., I don’t know if my idea of executing some shotgun runs of speaker cables is a good or bad idea….

I want to use double shotgun runs of Kimber 4tc per speaker. Rather than twist the runs together, I want to try keeping them separated at equal width throughout the runs. My thought is to “laminate” four equal lengths of the cables together with some type of clear tape (i.e.: separate and secure four lengths of cables by an equal and consistent width throughout the run – say one-inch - by “sandwiching” all four cable between heavy clear tape).

Question: will the tape itself hinder the dialectic properties of the cables (because I assume the tape is a poor dielectric)…??

What say you electrical engineer types?

Thank you.

_Ben
2chnlben

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2chnlben OP
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Thanks Al.

How then would you suggest I utilize my Kimber wire. I have plenty of it to work with. The 4tc does not provide a lot of copper (gauge). I want to increase the amount of copper (gauge) and thus my desire to use four sets per speaker.

Would I need to take two runs of the 4tc and twist them together...then at the ends, separate and combine the negative wires and the positive wires from the two runs. Repeating this procedure for both the top and bottom sets of the speaker's binding posts...?
2chnlben OP
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Jbuenech - that's good input and certainly makes me rethink my original strategy.

Al and Kijanki - You guys are both so knowledgeable and I always look forward to your intelligent responses.

The Kimber 4tc, as you likely know, is comprised of multiple twisted ("braided") wires including both the positive and negative runs. I want to use each "braided pair" (one complete run of the 4tc) per speaker terminal (2 runs - one to each of the top/bottom positives, and 2 runs - one to each of the top/bottom negatives). My thought was to run the four runs parallel and evenly spaced. Perhaps I should twist the runs.

Please help me determine the best approach to twisting:

1) twist the top negative and top positive separately and twist the bottom negative and bottom positive separately.

2) Do step (1) - above - and then twist those two "twisted pairs" together to form one large twisted run (with all four cables).

3) Twist the two positive runs together; twist the two negatives together; and then twist those two twisted pairs together...

4) Don't twist - run parallel/evenly spaced.

5) Other...

Thanks guys.

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