actually you guys need to go back to physics a firehose would be better then a garden hose if your goal is to have as much water come out in the shortest amount of time. small hose = large resistence. large hose = low resistence, in terms of wires, large wire = less resistence = less energy converted to heat = stronger signal. i have a test for the people who claim that cables don't work well. take some speaker wire, extract just one copper wire from that speaker cable. hook that up to your speakers, compare to the speaker cable as whole. us science majors think extremes you should too