speaker wire?

Hey all....  been a while since I posted but want to ask the question no one wants to really hear......

Which speaker wire out there is one of the best / most cost effective for wiring up some seperates.......

Things to consider or have questions about.......

Size or AWG.....  Jacketed......  Number of twists.....  Parallel or run just side by side.....  Regular good old 16 or 14 guage wire by GE from Home Depot.....  bla bla bla.....

I am getting ready to finally wire up my Focal 165 V1's to my PDX 4100 in active mode.....   100 X 4 but of course keeping the tweets down in power.  Or blowing them up so I have an excuse to replace them....  grin

Just want to know if any of you have bumped into what you would consider a great wire to work with, dosent pick up to many stray freq, and is in your opinion a great wire for the price.

BTW....  I just picked up 65 feet of RAAMaudio BXT MLV and will be installing when the wire goes in......  I will post some pics and let you all know how it goes.  Seems like a great product at a great price for the old ford explorer.  Also picked up 3 yards of ensolite closed cell foam......  will be putting that on the inside of all four doors  with a 12 X 12 patch behind each speaker trying to kill back wave.  Will be sealing up all holes with sheet metal before MLV....

The above is my road to decent mids and tweets untill it is time to put the focals in the trash.....  but I have to use what I have for the moment and no use putting in great componets if I dont do the leg work first...

Thoughts on speaker wire is where I am at right now....  thanks for your ideas....

Licto

$10.70

Excellent . . .

anything more esoteric than this is a waste of money.

oldspark wrote: Unless you get the equivalent in a Cat-5B or better twist so that mutual inductions and external interference is canceled out. (Coax is just too capacitive, but is great for powering amps.) - I'm just stirring - it's been a while.... (I won't mention mono gr..ns or molec..r c..l boud.r..s.) Thanks to DY for the link, and Anon's endorsement is truly valued. (PS - I have similar cable for my driving spots - not through choice - merely availability. But I'm curious to see its insulation breakdown being in the engine bay, over the radiator, frontally exposed (limited to 160kph/100mph), and often free to vibrate and flap about. Alas no noticeable breakdown (or even discoloring!) after a year (or more).... A pleasant surprise indeed!)

LOL somehow I predicted that post, I could hear it in my head when I clicked POST. :D

Surely, he could use twisted and shielded and plenum ferrite cores and magic dust, but 95% of the installations I ever hear sounds like crap for so many other reasons, that I can't encourage someone to spend a lot on wire unless they rest if the infrasructure is just as meticulously done.

If this were 2 Krell or Bryston mono blocks pushing some Carver Platinums or Martin Logans, of course I would have a radically different answer.

The voice of God shoud be heard on Martin Logans, rap should be heard on $10 speaker wire.