The filament inside a light bulb is tiny but you don't see me wiring a light socket with telephone wire.

Not too applicable in this situation. Tungsten is quite different to telephone wire where as speaker wire and voice coil wiring is extremely similar if not identical.

Duran was just pointing out the fact that people over-stress speaker wire size. People think they need 10 awg or 8 awg. The people that ask those questions though, essentially never need anything that big. Or even close to it.

I was trying to make a point. I know it isn't the same.

I'm a tech by trade and do system wiring all the time. It just amazes me when people totally discount speaker wiring is all.

Ok, you have 3 feet of wire and using a smaller gauge wire you may lose wattage to the subs. Ohm's law still applies. Will it be noticeable? Probably not. But why undersize it?

I'm not trying to start an argument, just stating my opinion. And saying that's like using 1/0 wire on tweeters is asinine.

I ordered 12 gauge my plan after I get my alt and bracket is to upgrade to a 5k so I will upgrade wire then.

This is quite useless. Do any of you realize how small the wire is that makes up your voice coil?

Does that mean you have to use the same guage wire as speaker wires?

Do you know the size of the wire inside of your alt? Then why would you ever need 0guage wire?

The subs voicecoil has cooling built in and it has no plastic to melt.

Not all woofers have cooling built in, that was extremely rare some years ago.

Some year's ago? As in atleast 15 years ago, since i use quite a lot of old subwoofers and speakers atleast 10 years old and they have built in cooling.

ANd those old woofers without cooling couldn't handle more then 600W and especially not 1000W for a considerable amount of time .

Edited March 11, 201213 yr by kirill007