With so many speaker cable manufacturers, configurations and theories I'm still confused about many issues:
1. What is the formula for deriving the required guage of wire for x amount of feet: ie, 5 feet requires ?? guage wire, 30 feet requires ?? guage wire, and so on.
2. "Thin" wires from inside the power amp terminate to the speaker terminals on the chassis. "Big" wires travel from the chassis terminals to the terminals on the back of the speaker. Once again, "thin" wires connect those terminals to the crossover network, then more "thin" wires connect the crossovers to the drivers.
What effect does this have on the monstrous cables that connect the amp to the speakers?
3. Is there really a difference between regular 12 guage wire and 14 guage, braided -vs- non-braided and finally stranded -vs- non-stranded?
4. Why doesn't "stacked" CAT-5 work for speaker cable?
While I take my monthly jaunts to the local high-end shops to hear what they've got, it's impossible to do real comparison shopping when they change the gear out often. I can't afford to perform my own testing at home with this new "stuff" on the equipment that I'm accustomed to.
I'm really trying to research what type and guage speaker cable I need to wire my new living room for my system. I own a pair of the Kimber 8-TC's, but they're too short for what I now need to do. I don't have that kind of cash this time around for wire as costly as the Kimbers.
Needing guidance, can anybody give some detailed explanation to the 4 questions I've posed above?
1. What is the formula for deriving the required guage of wire for x amount of feet: ie, 5 feet requires ?? guage wire, 30 feet requires ?? guage wire, and so on.
2. "Thin" wires from inside the power amp terminate to the speaker terminals on the chassis. "Big" wires travel from the chassis terminals to the terminals on the back of the speaker. Once again, "thin" wires connect those terminals to the crossover network, then more "thin" wires connect the crossovers to the drivers.
What effect does this have on the monstrous cables that connect the amp to the speakers?
3. Is there really a difference between regular 12 guage wire and 14 guage, braided -vs- non-braided and finally stranded -vs- non-stranded?
4. Why doesn't "stacked" CAT-5 work for speaker cable?
While I take my monthly jaunts to the local high-end shops to hear what they've got, it's impossible to do real comparison shopping when they change the gear out often. I can't afford to perform my own testing at home with this new "stuff" on the equipment that I'm accustomed to.
I'm really trying to research what type and guage speaker cable I need to wire my new living room for my system. I own a pair of the Kimber 8-TC's, but they're too short for what I now need to do. I don't have that kind of cash this time around for wire as costly as the Kimbers.
Needing guidance, can anybody give some detailed explanation to the 4 questions I've posed above?