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Title: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
Post by: scstill on April 30, 2025, 11:05:02 am

I have been building speaker cabinets of late to work with a couple of heads I made.
The heads around 20w, the speakers vary at 4/8/16ohm.
I have been making 10' speaker cables out of 18g twisted pair.
Do you see any issue with the cable choice?
Sounds very good in my small room at lowish volume

Title: Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
Post by: mresistor on April 30, 2025, 12:14:12 pm

I don't see any problem with twisted pair speaker wire.

Title: Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
Post by: Purgasound on April 30, 2025, 01:01:46 pm

Not a problem whatsoever.  Looks good, too!

18AWG is sufficient to get the job done. 

Title: Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
Post by: scstill on April 30, 2025, 01:20:31 pm

my biggest issue is what color to pick :-)