Excellent, informative post....(as always)

You only forgot one thing. You should have reminded everyone who uses this type of speaker wire (lamp cord) to be sure and buy it much longer than needed........the ends will need to be trimmed and re-stripped, many, many, many, times.

Also, my speaker wires are doing fine. ;\)

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