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All of those (except the 8AWG stuff, which while sold as "speaker wire" is really beyond overkill for that application and more suitable as a power wire for car audio amplifiers. That's how I use it) are perfectly suitable for speakers. Assuming a run short enough and loudspeaker nominal impedance high enough to result in de minimis loss from the 16AWG one, nobody will ever be able to tell a difference between them. "
Wrong. And then I`m allready excluding any multistrand wire, they`re useless.
Speakerwiring is primarely about how to avoid any dynamic loss, and the answer is heavy so,lid core, a lot heavier than Roger Russel or other socalled experts claims due to their misundertood calculations.
A wire can never be "too thick", only thich enough. Multistrands means distortion in every way, clean solid copper does it right.
Avoid multicore in powercables too, like extensioncables.
