A #12 zip, at .2 microhenries per foot, will store 2.5 uJoules per foot under a 100 wrms signal into 8 ohms. The same zip, with total and complete skinning, will store 2.0 uJoules per foot.

A 10 foot cable, will be capable of shedding 5 ujoules (absolute maximum) if the audio changes from lf to hf content during a waveform peak.

At 10Khz, that is .4% of the load energy of one cycle lobe. That is also a .2 uSec, or 200 nanosecond, leading edge delay and trailing edge advance. (simplistic calculation of integral of energy from one half cycle)

What does an amplifier do if wire stored energy tries to dump in during high slew rate signals?

Transducers will have an effect on what we hear (duh), but if the wires can cause different delays because they see different signals, the soundstage will shift, or blur, or whatever..

Question is...are the energy numbers large enough to be significant? Can the amp have a problem with 5 uJoules being dumped into a 2 millihenry line in series with the x-ducer?

Beats me..I'm not at the level to measure that.

But, you shoulda seen my condo upgrades...sweet.. Now, restoring an 1873 built house. Test setup is backburner.

Cheers, John