Originally Posted by
LowOhms
Yes, but your two runs of 16 AWG only gets us just 13 AWG, as an equivalent. Hardly 9 AWG.
For short runs, on ALTECS, ( one or two Bob Fulton lengths, NOTE : 57 1/8th inches is ONE Fulton incremental length ), we use two runs of 12 AWG per polarity, amp to speaker, which is like 9 AWG. ( Thats about like five of your 16 AWG in parallel. ) Three Fulton lengths we use three 12 AWG in parallel per polarity. Longer runs, four Fulton lengths ( 19.03 feet and longer ), we have carefully determined four runs of 12 AWG sound best.
When you go to more wire, you can not continue to use stranded copper. You need some silver content to maintain the high frequencies, in a linear way. That can get costly....usually. BUT,
I have previously posted up here some very specific wire recommendations, lengths, gauges, and implementations, to crossover, tweeter and woofer. It all uses Mil Spec wire you can get on eBay, for pennies on the dollar. If you are careful, at 50 cents a foot for 12 AWG. M22759/11 12 , and sometimes m22759/11 14 at 40-45 cents a foot. 16 AWG for as low as 20-25 cents a foot - a real audio bargain.
Its multi stranded copper, with a thick silver plating on each strand, enclosed in teflon. Dream to work with, and nice to hear. See my prior posts on it and contact me for the latest, most specific implementations we use. Its nice going-to and also-inside the ALTEC VOTT or 604 . ( From the crossover, one Fulton length to the drivers, double 12 to each woofer polarity, and a single 16 to each tweeter polarity.)
Everyone seems to have ignored me so far on this....which encourages me !
Dennis Fraker ( Serious Stereo.com ) and I use this Mil. Spec. wire, me at his suggestion. He used it at the recent October 2016 RMAF / Denver show, where I assisted him. This year, Dennis' GPA 604 MLTLs and special SET amps got " best overall room choice " of the whole show, by Stereophile's reviewer, Herb Reichert, himself no rookie.
I use it inside my SET 2A3 amps also, internally. I will use a single run of 16 AWG, from my crossover, to each polarity of the 802D, where I bypass the crummy press-to-fit connectors, and I solder direct to the diaphragm tabs, a 57 1/8th inch ( Bob Fulton length ) of M22759/11 16. Nice sounding to my ears, less distortion under drive, better dynamic contrasting..
Jeff Medwin
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