Antes creía que lo de los cables de altavoz era cierto pero ya no. Tras investigar aprendí que la geometría es fundamental, mucho más importante que el cobre, plata , oro o aleación utilizada.

En mis anteriores cajitas y en los actuales KEF Q100 (su sonido me tiene enamorado -pendiente anotación prolija) utilizo Kimber Kable 8PR. El enredado de los 8+8 hilos provoca una menor inductancia.

audioholics.comKimber Kable 4PR & 8PR Measurements and Analysis


The Kimber 4PR have the highest resistance out of all of the cables in this comparison. The effective gauge of these cables is around 14AWG which isn’t terrible but for considerably less cost one could get some of the competing lower resistance brands in this comparison. The Kimber 8PR’s effective gauge is around 11AWG which is significantly lower than the 4PR and close to the Bluejeans 5T00UP 10AWG cables. What is very interesting about both Kimber products is that they are the only speaker cables in this comparison with a relatively flat AC resistance profile...



It is no surprise that when a cable is designed to be low inductance that its capacitance will be proportionally higher as a result.




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Unlike cables that sandwich their conductors together, the Kimbers manage to keep capacitance in check without the necessity of adding a zobel network on the speaker side of the cable to assure amplifier stability. Kimbers published capacitance spec is 38pF for the 4PR and 90pF/ft for the 8PR. This is about what I measured as well as you can see from the graph above. The Kimber 8PR is about four times higher in capacitance than the Sonicwave or 5T00UP cables, and twice as high as its 4PR sibling. Again I don’t see this as a show stopper especially since most people purchasing these type of cables are doing so for short runs (under 50 ft) and are likely using high quality amplification that doesn’t have stability issues driving moderately high capacitive cables.