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JohnK,
A EP500, connected with 17 year old lamp cord?.......now, THAT'S funny!
Sorry, about that...."to each his own".........no,no, I've thought more about it and,.....it IS funny.
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It's not funny. Everyone knows you should use the low-level inputs on the sub if you can.
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I agree, the wires SHOULD be even smaller, and older, than those.....my bad.
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By low level, I mean coax cable with rca ends. Speaker wire is best for an amplified signal.
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The lampcord was used to connect re-positioned surround speakers. The EP500 was connected with a coaxial cable from MonoPrice($4).
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JohnK,
That makes sense.....I seem to have read your other post wrong,...sorry, and thank's for not hammering me.
Larry
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JohnK lets the truth hammer do the damage for him 
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John: just for the heck of it, I cut into the cable at a couple of places and looked at the copper conductor. It appeared that there had been some significant damage to the copper like the chemical reaction destroyed some of the copper.
I don't know how long I had this cable. I really thought that I threw all of it out a long time ago.
The Rat.
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Yeah Bernard, I suppose that over a period of years as the unstable PVC in that particular cord continued to decompose and release chlorine that the effect on the copper would spread farther inward from the surface. The wire would increasingly become cupric chloride compounds instead of pure copper. Fortunately the usual PVC jackets don't cause a problem and even decades-old cord still has bright copper when cut open.
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I'm glad I have never bought any. I have some really old stuff 20+ years kicking around and it still looks good.
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