Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I would imagine that the thinner conductor would have a higher impedance (doubtful silver vs copper would make up the difference) but you would have to measure it - I don't know if the K10 is even as affected as much as some BA's (e.g. Andromeda or Primo 8) by impedance (I will have to try when I finally get mine...)
Edit 2 (fixed this original edit's mistakes): It looks like the K10 has an almost flat phase to its impedance (https://clarityfidelity.blogspot.com/2016/08/noble-audio-kaiser-10-universal-new-ver.html) but the magnitude decreases significantly until 200 Hz - so I assume this would mean more bass with higher impedance (though presumably not much effect with the impedance delta from a cable swap)
Default: ~1.9 ohm Gold x Silver: ~0.4 ohm
This does seem like a relatively significant difference when the impedance of the IEM itself can dip pretty low (per the link above). I am going to have to do more A/B comparison to see if I can hear any significant difference (but the connectors are still too tight to keep switching them...)
Edit: To be clear, I was never referring to trying to measure the IEM' impedance.