Any recommendations internal speaker wire?

[GM]

Perhaps things are a bit out of control. I was hoping for suggestions about my wiring concept, not open warfare....

Just another day on the boards.......... Anyway, some good info got posted, but to answer your Q; yes, you can size wire by distance between components whether they're XO parts on a board or amp, speakers, etc..

Back when I started designing electrical distribution gear, we often had to provide [multiple] huge, hard wired solenoid relay panels to turn off/on/sequence up to hundreds of motors in a plant or in just one section of it if automotive or similar, so the amount of high quality stranded wire required demanded that we size wire based on load, not what the entire panel [or section of] load was, so while it might start out at 8 ga it could be 24 ga at the return point.

I don't recall checking how much we typically used on those, but one year saw an end-of-year Southwire invoice for 10 mil ft. of 14 ga [our standard control wiring] and we were a relatively tiny plant by assembly plant standards.

GM

[rogerh113]

Invest a few minutes - perhaps it helps put the relative importance of things into perspective.....

Monty Python- Dirty Fork - YouTube

regards -- Roger

[GM]

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GM

[mah]

In terms of perspective, BS is BS no matter how you look at it!

[Steve Schell]

Kipduff, you had asked me a couple weeks ago about the integrity of magnet wire insulation. All I can say is that the modern stuff is so tough that I have not seen evidence of a short in a voice or field coil in many years, and never in a speaker run. On the 1930s RCA drivers the coils would fail sometimes from the ancient purple varnish insulation flaking off the wire.

Jeff mentioned running untwisted, spaced wire runs. I used to do this years ago, attaching runs of #28 to the ceiling with Scotch tape. I began using drill-twisted runs for convenience, but never made careful sonic comparisons.

As to current capacity, with 108 - 110 dB sensitive drivers the speaker wires will rarely see a watt of signal on peaks. I have noticed no limitations, only wide open transparent sound. Please give it a try and report back. There may be something to the idea of matching wire cross sections between output transformer secondary and voice coil, both of which feature long lengths of tiny wire.

Just imagine... if fine magnet wire were best, who would tell you? Certainly not the purveyors of garden hose speaker cables!