Can I use 24 gauge speaker cable?

When I saw this discussion come up on my email, I thought great, let's see how thoroughly confusing some of these responses are going to be.  Well, I haven't been disappointed.  Assuming your question is a serious, although many of these guys are correct in most ways, you best most useful is probably from caykol, above.  Just follow his advice and any others of a similar nature and you will do just fine.  As an example, a number of years ago, I moved into a new place and found that my old bedroom set up would not work in the new bedroom, so I went to my local HD store and bought 100 ft of 14 ga stranded cable, cut one the required 10 feet and the other had to be run out to about 20 ft.  At first I was worried that the difference in cable length would create an unbalance in the sound of my two speakers, but guess what,  I had a balance control, so after a couple of adjustments it worked just fine.  My main system, on the other hand, that only has one chair, is another matter.  Hope this helps