Speaker Wire Size...What’s Your opinion

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Topic: Speaker Wire Size...What’s Your opinion

Posted By: Sweekster
Subject: Speaker Wire Size...What’s Your opinion
Date Posted: May 22, 2003 at 12:49 PM

I just thought I'd throw this out there and see what everyone think about this. What guage speaker wire (in your opinion) would be best to run to speakers (if you had to run new wires) being run off the head units internal amp to get the best sound quality without having to use and external amp?

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Posted By: wvsquirrel
Date Posted: May 22, 2003 at 3:34 PM

8, 10, or 12 gauge for subs.
14, 16, or 18 gauge for mids and highs

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Posted By: bberman1
Date Posted: May 22, 2003 at 4:30 PM

I 2nd the squirrel, Just use commonsense the more wattage the larger the gauge. But to answer your question I would most likely use a 16 gauge wire

Posted By: Big Purds
Date Posted: May 22, 2003 at 6:57 PM

16 ga is more than adequate for a hu's internal amp...

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