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RE: Thanks, Mike ...

Now, Mike ... you have heard for yourself what solid-core does, compared to stranded wire. But there are people with degrees in electrical engineering who - never having heard what solid-core wires do - would say "smearing, through the signal jumping from strand to strand in a stranded cable ... is rubbish "!

Yet you have heard it! :-))

But there's another theory which is pooh-poohed by electrical engineers ... that better sound is obtained when the signal is carried throughout the whole thickness of the metal ("skin effect").

If you believe in the 'goodness' of solid-core vs. stranded ... I suggest you should consider (or at least keep an open mind about!) the advantages of using thin wire - rather than thick. Obviously, the big problem is that you need to use multiple strands of thin wire (individually insulated, to keep it 'solid-core') to make up a much higher guage required by the spkr currents.

If you look at the table in this link,
https://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm

... you can see that the highest frequency that supports full depth transmission ... is just over 4kHz.

Because of this I would certainly use 12g for wires going to Maggie bass panels ... but I would not use it for a cable feeding all the drivers.

I would suggest the following guages are appropriate (note: in my system, I simply use multiple runs of 24g solid-core wire):
* 22-24g solid-core wire for ribbon wires
* 16-20g for mids, and
* 12-14g for bass panels.

If you used spkr cables made from solid-core wires that are constructed from multiple strands of individually insulated (preferably, teflon) 24g wire ... I suggest you will hear better highs than you do currently, with your 12g wire.

Regards,
Andy

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