Personally, I would just get 12 awg wire and not monkey around with 14,16 or 18 awg. Speaker wire can be purchased for so cheap in bulk (see link below).

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10239

This way you can insure the speaker cable has high conductivity for pretty much all home speaker run applications. Now or for any change in the future.

P.S I'd also recommend getting locking banana plugs.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm





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