12AWG speaker wire


I'm replacing my speaker wire with 12AWG wire, There are different 12AWG wire, The ones I looked at the 1st consisted of 65 strand 30 AWG and the 2nd 294 strand 36 AWG. Looking for thoughts on which is better?

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Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

Sounds like that will due as budget speaker cable. If you have speakers an an audio system that is focused on high sound quality. Then you need to look at high quality speaker cables manufactured in descrete lengths for the specific purpose. These will cost many hundreds or thousands of dollars. I have a very high end system, mine cost nearly $5K. The ones I had for the previous 30 years cost $3.5K. I would think of them as an active component in your system. 5 - 10% the value of your system.