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Poni
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A bit OT but what do you guys use as speaker wire, what gauge anything special I'd love to hear your secrets.
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Big Kenny
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bigger is better, I have three monitor pairs, all three have different gauges
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seryozha
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Well..some more info on What kind of speakers, where are the speakers from your amp and like what are you doing would help.
Lol sorry to be uh....blunt
Lol sorry to be uh....blunt
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ozraves
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10 gauge wire is the way to go.
I use Original Monster 10 gauge wire but any good 10 gauge wire from the hardware store should do it.
Steve
www.mojopie.com
I use Original Monster 10 gauge wire but any good 10 gauge wire from the hardware store should do it.
Steve
www.mojopie.com
Blue Bear Sound
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Yup - agreed - 10 gauge.... use banana connectors if your speaker connection posts won't accept that thickness of wire....
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Poni
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i need to go about 50 ft. and I was looking at 14 gauge what do you think.
lpdeluxe
The Precision Bass Guy
14 gauge will do fine for 50' lengths. Radio Shack sells some that has a clear jacket <http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...name=CTLG_007_002_003_004&product_id=278-1273> that I wired my living room with. I use Belden in the studio...actually, come to think of it, I just replaced all that with active monitors, so I'm using mic cables instead! But you can go to a Home Depot or such and buy stranded copper cable of whatever size...the downside being that it doesn't look as professional unless you run it in spaghetti.
Bigger is better: think of speaker wire as the hose coming out of a fire hydrant. A garden hose (small diameter) will transfer water... but fire hoses (large diameter) are what the firemen use.
That said, there's probably a limit on how much you gain as you go up in size, but it never hurts to get the biggest that'll fit. RS also sells solderable tips to attach to the ends of oversize cable if your speaker junctions won't handle big wire. Which leads to another important point: make sure the connections are the best you can devise. You are connecting current to the speakers. No sense running 8-ga all over if the signal never makes it across the gap to the speaker. Look in Gary Davis and Ralph Jones' Sound Reinforcement Handbook for all the math.
Bigger is better: think of speaker wire as the hose coming out of a fire hydrant. A garden hose (small diameter) will transfer water... but fire hoses (large diameter) are what the firemen use.
That said, there's probably a limit on how much you gain as you go up in size, but it never hurts to get the biggest that'll fit. RS also sells solderable tips to attach to the ends of oversize cable if your speaker junctions won't handle big wire. Which leads to another important point: make sure the connections are the best you can devise. You are connecting current to the speakers. No sense running 8-ga all over if the signal never makes it across the gap to the speaker. Look in Gary Davis and Ralph Jones' Sound Reinforcement Handbook for all the math.