jeffreyfranz,
I appreciate your suggestion. I have done a little investigation regarding the optimal electrical parameters for full range electrostatics most of which behave like a large capacitor. Roger West and Roger Sanders who know a bit about full range electrostatics have both advocated speaker cables with both very low inductance and low capacitance. This is not easy to achieve. Roger Sanders used to sell a dual coax speaker cable with such characteristics. The Nordost cables published specs also have both low inductance and capacitance; I was curious about Nordost 2 cables and tried a combination of Heimdall 2 speaker cables and interconnects together in my system. I selected the Heimdall 2 as a midlevel Nordost cable which would give me an idea of the signature of this brand. They are excellent cables but have a distinct sonic signature. I am aware of the Iconoclast cables but have not tried them. They use Belden wire to fabricate their cables. I looked at the Belden catalog and noticed that Belden Coax 8268 has 13 gauge central silver coated copper conductors and also very low inductance (0.077 microH/ ft) and low capacitance (30.8 pF/ft). It is gotten expensive for raw cable, $6.90/ft from RF Parts. I used xhadow spades for terminations. It works surprisingly well and I found no advantage to the considerably more expensive Nordost and is perhaps slightly more transparent. I cannot tell anyone else whether this cable will work in a given system but for full range electrostatics you might give it a try if you can properly terminate the cables and can deal with the stiffness of this cable.
I appreciate your suggestion. I have done a little investigation regarding the optimal electrical parameters for full range electrostatics most of which behave like a large capacitor. Roger West and Roger Sanders who know a bit about full range electrostatics have both advocated speaker cables with both very low inductance and low capacitance. This is not easy to achieve. Roger Sanders used to sell a dual coax speaker cable with such characteristics. The Nordost cables published specs also have both low inductance and capacitance; I was curious about Nordost 2 cables and tried a combination of Heimdall 2 speaker cables and interconnects together in my system. I selected the Heimdall 2 as a midlevel Nordost cable which would give me an idea of the signature of this brand. They are excellent cables but have a distinct sonic signature. I am aware of the Iconoclast cables but have not tried them. They use Belden wire to fabricate their cables. I looked at the Belden catalog and noticed that Belden Coax 8268 has 13 gauge central silver coated copper conductors and also very low inductance (0.077 microH/ ft) and low capacitance (30.8 pF/ft). It is gotten expensive for raw cable, $6.90/ft from RF Parts. I used xhadow spades for terminations. It works surprisingly well and I found no advantage to the considerably more expensive Nordost and is perhaps slightly more transparent. I cannot tell anyone else whether this cable will work in a given system but for full range electrostatics you might give it a try if you can properly terminate the cables and can deal with the stiffness of this cable.