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Post by Porscheguy on Jan 30, 2010 13:38:36 GMT -5
I just ran about 35' - 40' of 14 gauge wire to a zone 2 in my living room. Using a UPA-7 to bookshelf Snells.
Think 14 gauge is adequate? Should I go for 12 gauge? Any sonic benefit?
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Post by DoingOK on Jan 30, 2010 13:43:36 GMT -5
I seriously doubt you'd hear any difference at all. There is a very good article about wiring that I'll find that explains it in a no bullshit kind of way. I personally chose to wire my whole house in 10AWG wiring from Blue Jeans Cable. I wanted to eliminate any restrictions whatsoever on something so relatively cheap. I would have been fine with 12AWG, but some of my runs were approaching 75+ feet.
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Post by Porscheguy on Jan 30, 2010 13:53:22 GMT -5
I seriously doubt you'd hear any difference at all. There is a very good article about wiring that I'll find that explains it in a no bullshit kind of way. I personally chose to wire my whole house in 10AWG wiring from Blue Jeans Cable. I wanted to eliminate any restrictions whatsoever on something so relatively cheap. I would have been fine with 12AWG, but some of my runs were approaching 75+ feet. Thanks, so much has been written (and argued) about speaker wire quality and thickness. Some guys spend 7K-8K on speaker interconnects.... Too rich for me  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2010 15:23:54 GMT -5
na 14 gauge is fine. If you were going over 50 feet, maybe 12 gauge would be a good idea but your golden.
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Post by CiXel on Jan 30, 2010 17:22:20 GMT -5
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Post by ratso on Jan 30, 2010 17:57:28 GMT -5
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Post by Porscheguy on Jan 31, 2010 4:39:40 GMT -5
Good stuff!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2010 5:19:38 GMT -5
Think 14 gauge is adequate? Should I go for 12 gauge? Any sonic benefit? Ec Yes.....No.....No. ;D |
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Post by Porscheguy on Jan 31, 2010 9:49:15 GMT -5
Think 14 gauge is adequate? Should I go for 12 gauge? Any sonic benefit? Ec Yes.....No.....No. ;D Thanks Chuckienut for doing your part to save bandwidth  |
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Post by strindl on Jan 31, 2010 21:05:36 GMT -5
They talk about Polk Cobra cable in that link. That was the original special speaker wire, and I bought some in 1978. I still have it, although I wouldn't use it now. My phase linear 400 amp did not like that Polk cobra cable at all. It would overheat and shut down with that hooked up. I switched to an Ampzilla IIa and that had no trouble with it.  |
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Post by Porscheguy on Feb 1, 2010 20:01:40 GMT -5
They talk about Polk Cobra cable in that link. That was the original special speaker wire, and I bought some in 1978. I still have it, although I wouldn't use it now. My phase linear 400 amp did not like that Polk cobra cable at all. It would overheat and shut down with that hooked up. I switched to an Ampzilla IIa and that had no trouble with it. Not sure about good or bad but thats one hell of a cable..... :-) |
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Post by strindl on Feb 1, 2010 23:41:32 GMT -5
It was the original anyway. Prior to Cobra cable, everyone just used various gauges of zip cord. There was a fatal flaw in the design of that Polk cable though. It was made up of many many tiny strands of individually insulated wires. Those individually insulated tiny strands were interwoven around each other...both the positive and negative channels right on top of each other.
Over time and with the bending and twisting of the wire, the insulation on those tiny strands had a tendency to chafe and break. When that happened you had the positive and negative channels in direct contact which presents a dead short to the amp. Not a good thing.
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Post by RuggSkins on Feb 3, 2010 16:11:48 GMT -5
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