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Default Mains/signal combo cables - inherently fragile ?

geoff wrote:

On 7/01/2014 9:10 a.m., geoff wrote:
On 6/01/2014 12:04 a.m., geoff wrote:


Yeah - I've got Leslie cables for my Leslie ( and PR40).

Oddly, the Leslie cables possibly aren't legal, as the mains wires
aren't separately sheathed/insulated wrt the signal ones. Maybe - I have
dissected, or needed to.


OK, think I've solved it wrt my existing cables.

Both the 9-wire and 5-wire Leslie cable are much stiffer than my LEEM(?)
'active speaker' ones. They coil OK, at a radius of around 0.5m but will
not naturally bend tighter than that.

The 'active speaker' combo cable is far more flexible - even floppy -
and can bend at a radius of a few inches without force. However in some
orientations this stretches any cable on the outside of the radius, and
if it's the signal cable the force is amplified by the fulcrum provided
by the firmer power cable on the 'inside.

Whether or not this is a specific weakness of this brand, I do not know,
and don't really fancy spending hundreds of dollars on another brand
(Proel is available) to find out. Or it could even be the same OEM junk
...

geoff


So it seems that thanks to our resident psycho ****ting all over my
thread I'll just have to take a punt on investing in a similar cable of
alternative brand ;-(

geoff


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whew

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