On Feb 20, 11:14*am, Martin Brown
wrote:
On 20/02/2012 10:38, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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Cheap co-axial wire is
most suitable for remote speaker connects and simple ellipticals or
dual cone ellipticals work well for this.

Co-ax for speakers? You live and learn.

It wouldn't surprise me if some power amplifiers reacted to having coax
wire used to connect to speakers by oscillating wildly. You really want

From which storybook did you find that gem?

the equivalent of about 1mm^2 cross section of copper (or more) in each
wire of a decent speaker cable intended to preserve bass response.

Co-ax does that.

Basic figure of 8 speaker cable using annealed copper is fine.

In the gauges required, particularly in distant installations, basic
co-axial is usually cheaper. There are advantages in the
transmission of audio frequencies probably related to phase shift
which occurs with 'speaker wire'.

You don't need stuff hand spun by mermaids in an oxygen free atmosphere.

It's still best to throw out the bell-wire even with a close-coupled
installation.