Nordost writes: “Did you know that flat speaker cable design minimizes strand interaction? When conductors are bunched together, they produce a magnetic field, which attracts the energy carried from each surrounding conductor, causing the signal to jump from conductor to conductor. This not only slows transmission speeds, it increases the capacitance and causes a loss of vital information along the way.
When conductors are separated, as they are in a flat speaker cable design, the harmful effects of strand interaction are minimized, capacitance is lowered, and transmission speeds are maximized.”