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The only thing that matters is the resistance, and any normal speaker cable will be low enough for it not to be a problem over that sort of distance.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Not quite sure where the idea that you need HD cables for guitar speakers came from (hi fi nuts?) but it ain't so. 6 amp orange Flymo cable is more than good enough. Worse case (?) 100W into 4 Ohms =5 amps rms and even that won't ever be continuous enough to get the cable above ambient temp!
Damping factor? Even a hefty 100W valve amp will have an output resistance of 10 Ohms or so and a 30W EL84 (no NFB) jobbie more like 50 Ohms. No, guitar amps leave speaker cones to do their own thang!
Stabilty. Now, THIS could be a problem with a solid state amp but I doubt even 10mtr of 'side by side' cable would cause trouble. 10mtr of shielded cable might. Valve power stages should be virtually immune to stability issues even those with a whiff of NFB.
Bottom line. Garden Centre, orange wire, Nuky plugs, job's a good 'un. If ANYTHING gets warm it will be the jacks and so fit better sockets!
Dave.
The great beauty of power cable (I also prefer grey, doesn't look as bad as orange and still makes it clear it's not an instrument lead) is that not only is it very physically robust, being round section it's gripped really well by the Neutrik cable clamp, whereas flat/figure-8 isn't.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
It won't. I used to have a pair of 50m speaker cables I used for outdoor PA, made by simply buying a 100m reel of 2-core mains cable and cutting it in half. It was used for full-range audio and there was no noticeable loss of bass.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
In general though mains cable is fine and readily available in B &Q
Bit of confusion here about 'Inductance'? A coiled two core cable is non-inductive, the send and return currents cancel.
Even if extra inductance was present it would result in a small decrease in HF not bass and since guitar speakers 'give up' past about 8kHz, you would probably never know!
If a cable were long enough to insert significant resistance it would worsen the damping factor (a bit!) and that would result in MORE bass, not less. But you need a flipping lot of 5/6A cable to get even 4 Ohms.
As IC said DON'T leave mains extension coiled. Cable ratings are for free air.
Dave.
I've got a 10m reel with a 4-way gang in the middle. When you say "don't leave it coiled" do you mean that I should unwind all 10m when I use it at a gig?
Forth what it's worth I have seen a coiled power cable melt when a band was using it. It didn't actually blow anything, but it turned itself into a solid lump of plastic that then couldn't be unwound when it had cooled down.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I wouldn't use any of this kind of stuff for PA at above about 150W per cabinet, you need proper speaker connectors and cables for that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson