What sort of speaker cables do you use and why?

Home or Auto or boat?

It really depends on how many watts you source is. Many spend way too much on speaker cable or wires.

Overkill. How many watts?

Oh, me? I use 12 gage romex. I just wanted to see if anyone had fallen for Monster cables.

Romex works good but it is kind of expensive.

romex.? I suppose it will work.... not as flexible or easy to hide.. and you have an extra wire... Can't tell you exactly what gage my speaker wires are but it is speaker wire....

14g or 12g for my home theater. Any basic brand as brands like monster cable/etc are simply marketing BS. (And I have the references to back that up.....)

220, 221. Whatever it takes.

romex? isn't that for like house wiring?

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and what, buy the way makes good/bad cable?

nine

^ if your speaker works you have a good cable.....

cool.

I use 8 gauge for my fronts and center channel and 12 gauge for my surrounds.

J

I'd buy a roll of 14 or 12 lamp cord, works well and is cheap. These new speakers today will work prettnear on telephone cord since they use so little power to drive them.

I use 14awg stranded speaker wire from radio shack.

I believe that what differentiates speaker cord from other types of cable is that it has more strands and more of a twisted geometry and uses a more pure grade of copper........which reduces capacitance or some ****.

re 5

I used romex to inside the walls between connector boxes. I used heavy stranded twin lead between the boxes and the amp/speakers.

How about HDMI cables? I don't have hidef yet but I see them for sale for up to $100, sounds crazy to me.

Gene,

HDMI is just a cat-5 cable with a fancy end.

^you can buy the connectors and make your own, but it is cheaper to just buy the cables from an auction site. I got four for $20 or thereabouts.