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18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
« 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


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Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2025, 12:14:12 pm »
I don't see any problem with twisted pair speaker wire.

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Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2025, 01:01:46 pm »
Not a problem whatsoever.  Looks good, too!

18AWG is sufficient to get the job done. 

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Re: 18g Twisted Pair Cable between Head and Speaker
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2025, 01:20:31 pm »
my biggest issue is what color to pick :-)

 


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