Rat Shack 18AWG Wire???

Fallen Kell

10Ga solid core is about .1 thick, so speaker wire made of it with two strands (min for +/-) will be pretty hard wire to route. Hopefully you have nice easy access from your amp to your speakers

PoweredByDodge

i just thought of something - i'd like to see the speaker terminal that accepts 10 gauge now that would be a BIG terminal. last time i saw something that big was on the back of a 1,000 watt subwoofer. they were spring cylinders... you'd push the cylinder down and the holes on the inner and outer cylinder would match - push the wire in, let go of the cylinder and the holes would try to shear apart, holding the wire in place.

you must be using bananna plugs, eh? are they all solder, or do they also come as screw-together's ?

McLoki

PoweredByDodge wrote:

i just thought of something - i'd like to see the speaker terminal that accepts 10 gauge now that would be a BIG terminal.

All of the LSi series will accept 10 guage wire. (maybe about 8 or 9 guage...)

Michael

Fallen Kell

PoweredByDodge wrote:

i just thought of something - i'd like to see the speaker terminal that accepts 10 gauge now that would be a BIG terminal. last time i saw something that big was on the back of a 1,000 watt subwoofer. they were spring cylinders... you'd push the cylinder down and the holes on the inner and outer cylinder would match - push the wire in, let go of the cylinder and the holes would try to shear apart, holding the wire in place.

you must be using bananna plugs, eh? are they all solder, or do they also come as screw-together's ?

Well, my speakers will take 8Ga wire onto their 5-way binding posts (thru the hole in the post for wire), and they would take up to 4Ga if it was just wrapped around the post with the top screw (not thru the hole)... As it stands though, I use bannana plugs...

PoweredByDodge

WOW - that's a beefy terminal!

candyliquor35m

Even though it says 10 awg on the outer sheath or whatever it's called on a 12x3 set of wire, my wire stripper indicates it's 12. Does anyone think I would hear a audible difference by going to 10?

PoweredByDodge

... only if you're dropping voltage across your given length of wire. As far as sound quality, there should be no difference... only "loudness" at a given volume level on your amplifier (provided you were experiencing a noted voltage drop).