Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance?

@kijanki , they are actually longer than usual runs because of the way I had my system set up in the last room.  (The equipment was, and is, off to the side of the speakers as opposed to being in between the speakers.  I'll measure the length, hopefully, tomorrow.

@gs5556 , basically you are saying that measurements I took with my meter set to ohms are probably not accurate?

Thank you.  I will no longer spend time trying to measure my speaker wire resistance.  

@atmasphere and ​​​​​@carlsbad2 and @everybody else who tried to dumb this down an explain it for me--thank you.

@atmasphere and ​​​​​@carlsbad2 I now know that on a couple of levels I wouldn’t get an accurate reading--for one the meter I was using,

and also: the fact that I was taking my reading from the amplifier post (with cables hooked up) to speaker wire post of speaker (with cables hooked up, and then again from amp post to the other end with cables NOT hooked up on speaker end).

Either way, that probably screwed up the measurement I was TRYING to take, right?

So last question: the actual resistance was probably way lower that the 0.07 and 0.05 that I THOUGHT that I was reading?

And as an aside, my speaker cables (Kimber, and I THINK I remember that they they are 8TC and 4TC) probably are longer than what would be considered ideal.

Your 8TC cables are 9AWG equivalent which is heavy enough for any run inside a listening room.  You have nothing to worry about.

Okay, thanks for getting back to me on that, @carlsbad2  , the reason I mentioned it is because in one of my earlier configurations, in a larger room, I bought cables that were made up to be long enough that my year was not situated between speakers but on a side wall.  Therefore they are longer.  

@atmasphere , after I read the replies I started thinking that the fact that I had always had at least the amp end of my cables connected when I was trying to measure made my readings to not be valid.

I would think that regardless of the length of the cable, the actual resistance was lower than what I thought I was reading?

As far as the meter, I didn't think it was anything special--when my old Radioshack meter that I used to bias my amp, I bought a Southwire at Lowes and that's what I was using.  

Thanks for getting back to me @atmasphere ; oops, I see the typo I made.  No, two or three years ago my old Radioshack meter failed the drop test and bit the dust. I replaced it with a Southwire meter I bought at Lowes. It was that meter that I took the readings of 0.07 with and screwed around with adding my second run that I had used for bi-wiring and then read 0.05.

For now I think I can live with knowing that those readings were erroneously high (since Revel was listing 0.07 as the highest resistance for speaker wire; I would say that going by what you have told me I am below that)..

I guess I can add to my list relocating my gear to speakers relationship and either buying short runs of a high quality speaker wire or cutting my Kimber at least in half and then maybe just wrapping un-insulated strands of wire around the posts at one end or the other.