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I'm just going to use 12/2 Romex next time.



OK, I'll throw my neck on the chopping block here as well...
I just happen to be in the middle of re-wiring the lights in my HT room (Before Katrina we blew on average 1 bulb a week. After seeing the hack wiring job I know why now - so new lights and new wire) and have about 200' of 12/2 Romex left on the spool, so after reading the wire myth link regarding no difference in number of conductors, I just had to test the resistance ... With my trusty FLUKE meter I got 0.40 Ohms, for a solid wire! The same distance of the highly stranded Axiom wire (which I bought for the fronts, by the way, and gladly so) would net 0.68 Ohms.

With that said, I recall a college physics lecture that showed that the majority of sound frequencies, as an electrical signal, travel on the surface of the wire. This was measured as the load on the amp. The greater the number of strands for a given gauge, the easier the job the amp had to hit a particular spl. Of course this wouldn't be the first time I've found out that something I learned in college was complete crap.

Scott

Scott

My HT