Speaker wires - too big?

[mouettus]

Is there such a thing?

I went to home depot to get some wires for my new speakers and I didn't remember the gauge I bought 2 years ago. So I went with the 12 gauge (@ 1.50$/meter LOL).

You know what the funniest part of it is? The 17 years old that works there told me that I would lose some high frequency defenition. Oops lol. It's december 24th so I left him alone; didn't want to argue.

Btw I'm just running them directly from my receiver to my fronts. About a 6-7ft run each. I know that only long runs (>50ft.) are affected by bigger gauge but bigger is better, is it? I'm not talking about the house's ground here but heh... just wondering.

 

[WmAx]

I went to home depot to get some wires for my new speakers and I didn't remember the gauge I bought 2 years ago. So I went with the 12 gauge (@ 1.50$/meter LOL).

You know what the funniest part of it is? The 17 years old that works there told me that I would lose some high frequency defenition. Oops lol. It's december 24th so I left him alone; didn't want to argue.

12AWG is fine. In fact, today, I use 12AWG for everything, including simple wiring from direct active systems to all of the isolated drivers(including tweeters). I just buy bulk packs of 12 AWG 'low-voltage landscape wire' or 100' rolls of 12AWG budget speaker wire. Recently, I acquired about 70' of 12AWG 4 conductor stranded electrical cable(intended for industrial applications) and I will use this in a system this year.

The point: use whatever you can get - it will work as long as it's of sufficient gauge, and assuming it's not an unusual scheme that can cause damage in some cases(DIY CAT5 speaker cable, for example).

-Chris

 

[mtrycrafts]

You know what the funniest part of it is? The 17 years old that works there told me that I would lose some high frequency defenition. Oops lol. It's december 24th so I left him alone; didn't want to argue.
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Next time you tell him that you will make that wire behave, break it in, and get its definition back, or else.

As long as the wire fits, raw or with a lug or banana connector, you are in.

 

[markw]

Tell the kid that if he believes that his wires need more definition , he should buy them a dictionary.

Merry Christmas

 

[Haoleb]

My speaker cables consist of a single cable that contains 4 seperate 8 gauge copper conductors. I am using two for Pos and Two for neg. Then on the ends I have soldered some heavy duty high current ring connectors. Hope im also not loosing any HF definition.

By the way, The cable was free, the connectors were about 15 bucks for all of them and the techflex i covered them with i sortof permanently borrowed. lol