voice coil guage size

you don't just want to use any gauge wire  12,10,8 gauge is ok. 

al i use is 8 gauge wire on my subs but thats just me.  now my highs i use 12, 16 gauge

haemphyst wrote: hardknocks, the way I see it is you have your priorities backwards. The larger the wire the lower it's resistance across the board, but SPECIFICALLY, larger wire will offer a better path for highs, due to reduced resistance and lower SKIN EFFECT. As frequencies get higher, they travel on (really - closer to) the surface of a wire, and the higher the frequency, the shallower this effect is. As frequencies get lower, they use more of the wire, so smaller wire can be effectively used with lower frequencies. Other than that, please look at this link. I entered 2000 watts into 4 ohms through 8 feet of 24 gauge wire, an there is only .84 dB loss! As I said in my first post, appearances count for many people (myself included) so use whatever wire you want, but, personally, I'd reconsider the use of the 12 or 16 for your highs...

you need to check what you are saying big guy 24 gauge wire and u loss .84 DBs as a posed to 10 gauge  loss 0.03 DBs 

the wire resistance  24 gauge wire 0.4062,  10 gauge wire 0.016

power loss to sub 24 gauge wire 9.08 volts, 10 gauge wire 0.36

voltage at amp 89.44 for both wires

voltage reaching subs 24 gauge wire  81.2 , 10 gauge wire 89.09

total wattage to subs 24 gauge wire 1648.23, 10 gauge wire 1984.12

I'm not even going to use 8 gauge wire in this  now young man u are wrong.

now u can use 24 gauge if you like and not tet the full affect of your systemif you like.

the smaller the wire number the bigger the wire with less resistance = more power to speakers and the bigger the number  the smaller the wire and the higher the resistance = loss of power to speakers.  Again if you want to correct some one do ur self a favor and ensure ur not steping on ur D**K and things turn on u.

Now that i have that off my chest I don't mean to take ur thread ralphpylayanum1 but some people. like a said before i would recomend using 12 or 16  gauge speaker wire for ur subs

this way u don't loss a lot of power and u get the full affect of ur amps  

12,  10,or 8  gauge for ur L7