I'm building my own VenHaus speaker wires for the Focus, and I was wondering if I could get some info on speaker wiring length..
If anyone knows the approximate lengths from a hatch mounted amp to the rear and front speakers, that would be awesome!
I was guessing maybe 7' for the rear speakers, and maybe 15 or 17' for the fronts?
I'll probably run the fronts up thru the center of the car, then across to the doors and thru the jambs...
I don't want to spend HOURS building wire only to have it too short...and it's rather expensive making lengths longer than you need...
Oh, VenHaus speaker wire, for those of you who don't know, is Cat5 network cable (because it's single strand copper), and the particular type used is individually coated in Teflon in twisted pairs...
You need to braid multiple pairs together (27 pairs!), to reduces any asymmetrical field interactions and to get a sufficient gauge (equal to 10g!)...
You end up with some VERY fine speaker wire with audio characteristics equalling and rivalling that of VERY expensive speaker wire...Audioquest Midnight, Straightwire Maestros, Kimber 8TC...
i am an idiot wrote:
Do you have the car yet?
Yeah, I know...measure it, right?
No, I was just wondering if you had it yet?
Run 16 AWG standard speaker wire and save yourself time and money. VenHaus might be fine on a Pass Labs/Revel system in a home but the benefits in a car are slight to none. That 10 AWG weaved cable is going to be a pain to get under the carpet and into the doors. Later if you were to Biamp, you are going to do that much more work. Do a search on this site for "speaker wire".
Take a look at the Canare. About .60 a foot.
https://www.canare.com/index.cfm?objectid=ED6BC7F9-3048-7098-AFFBD72838C0461D
[QUOTE=audiocableguy]Take a look at the Canare. About .60 a foot.
https://www.canare.com/index.cfm?objectid=ED6BC7F9-3048-7098-AFFBD72838C0461D[/QUOTE]
They got the right idea...too bad it's PVC shielded...