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what size speaker cable do you use
« on: February 19, 2008, 03:06:33 PM »
so what size is your favorite?

been using some 12 ga extension cord with the + doubled up- for a few years-

last summer i bought 2- 16 ga extension cords from harbor freight -well i decided to give them a try today with my new speakers-and i didnt double the + on these-

the sound has changed-lol
ill save the remarks till they get a hour at least on them

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 03:09:19 PM »
9 guage Harmonic Tech's on my mains.  11 ga HT and Canare 4S11 on the center and surrounds in the HT.  10ga to the sub.

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 04:54:14 PM »
I use 9 ga. Reality Cables and 8 ga. homebrew in my system.
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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 07:04:41 PM »
I use 4 strands of 12Ga THHN for the woofers, effectively 9Ga for each leg.


9ga Analysis plus on the mids/tweets which is way overkill but it does seem to sound good.

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 05:27:58 AM »
5ga JPS  :shock:

I like 'em   8)  I've learned that these speakers can't get too much current or too big wires.

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2008, 02:44:55 PM »
The Reality Cables are 9ga?!  :shock:  I did not know that... That's what I use in my reference system... which is in limbo.

I currently use Home Depot in-wall 12ga speaker cable.  They are the finest plastic-sheathed strands of copper you can find. ;) 
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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 03:35:25 PM »
That's what I use in my reference system...

You've arrived, brother! A 'reference system' and a normal system.  8) That may be the first "reference system" reference ever made on AN! 

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 04:06:36 PM »
I guess mine must be a reference system also as it is the only one I have to make references to.
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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2008, 04:36:56 PM »
gotta wonder sometimes how the outside world thinks when we have a display of man hood by how big our speaker cable is :yay2:

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 03:02:59 PM »
The Reality Cables are 9ga?!  :shock:  I did not know that... That's what I use in my reference system... which is in limbo.

I currently use Home Depot in-wall 12ga speaker cable.  They are the finest plastic-sheathed strands of copper you can find. ;) 
Where are the real men to blog here about how they soldered their respective amps / preamps directly to the speakers? Come on, you know you're out there...
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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 03:29:15 PM »
i doubled up the + on my diy 16 ga harbor freight specials- :drool:

no bloat to the bass,sweet sounding for 10 bucks-
very happy with these and the new speakers

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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2008, 06:03:06 PM »
Using Omega Mikro Active and have no idea what ga. the ribbons are.


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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2008, 07:14:07 PM »
i doubled up the + on my diy 16 ga harbor freight specials- :drool:

no bloat to the bass,sweet sounding for 10 bucks-
very happy with these and the new speakers
What might be the effect of using 2 sets of the same brand speaker cables, in parallel, for speakers each with a single set of binding posts? For example, one could use a pair of SCs with spades, and another pair of SCs with bananas, for the amp-speaker connections for a pair of speakers each with only a pair of cable jacks, by using a [spade + banana] SC pair for each speaker. I don't know if it would do harm, good, or no change, might depend on capacitance and other parameters.
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Re: what size speaker cable do you use
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2008, 06:02:11 AM »
I tried it with slightly different solid core copper wires once, it sounded horrible. It was anticable and bill occonnells cotton telephone wire. Separately they each sounded good. Weird.