On Jan 20, 6:15*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Cut a foot of 14 ga Romex. And a foot of this wire. weigh each on a postal
scale, see how close the weights are.

Christopher A. Young
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Got some new speaker wire from an Amazon vendor today. It was claimed to
be
14GA but looks to be a bit less. The wire is marked 14GA but the bag
says
BRX-14 and nothing about gauge or size of any kind other than 100' (I

That is a totally bogus method...

The Romex wire thermoplastic insulation is MUCH heavier than the
insulation used on speaker cable...

Your testing method would require stripping the wires to actually
compare how much metal is in the wire...

~~ Evan