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What's the smallest wire AWG that you feel confident using for speakers?

For the sake of arguement, let's say that you have a non bi-wire speaker that is fairly efficient and an easy load. 95dB@1W/1M, and 8ohms nominal.
Let's also say that you have a small amplifier (9 watts/ch), and a short run of speaker wire (5 feet per side).
Your expectations are to get a reasonable volume level in a small room (13'x20'), with bass probably somewhere in the 40Hz region. The only thing that you DON"T want to do is choke the amplifier.

What is the smallest speaker wire guage that you would feel comfortable using so that you are not choking the amplifier? I'm thinking 22AWG would be plenty for this example.

The reason why I ask is, I'm thinking about making my own speaker cables (with expensive wire) and I'm trying to figure out how small of an AWG is big enough. I'm not trying to cheap out. I just don't want to do the overkill thing for the sake of overkill.

Perhaps enough can be enough, and less could be more.




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Topic - What's the smallest wire AWG that you feel confident using for speakers? - Quiet Earth 09:11:36 04/01/07 (21)

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