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Hey I’m thinking bout buying 300’ of sky high 14 gauge speaker wire. Will it be good enough to use as wiring for my speakers. Up to 300 watts would be going through it. I just rather get a bunch of wires so I don’t need to keep buying if I ever run out from batches. I’ve had 12 gauge but for some speakers with push terminals it’s too big. The 14 fits fine so I’m thinking it’ll be fine. Could I get some feed back 

Tabulated below are the recommended cable distances (+20%) one should use for various speaker cable gauges and speaker loads.

Speaker Impedance 8 Ohm Load 6 Ohm Load  4 Ohm Load
Wire Gauge Distance (ft)  Distance (ft) Distance (ft)
18 AWG 10  8 5
16 AWG 20  15 10
14 AWG 35  30 20
12 AWG 60  45 30
10 AWG 100  75 50

Table 1. Recommended Cable Distances vs Gauge

Realize once you attach a real world amplifier (non zero output impedance) and loudspeaker (reactive load), the overall system losses will be greater but the goal here is to ensure the speaker cable is as transparent as possible.

Sourced from: https://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/speaker-cable-gauge

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So the amount of wattagegoing through isn’t a factor as much as the ohm load?

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Ok thanks. For choking in guys. I’ll pick up the spool. I hate running short on speaker wire when I’m either redoing something or doing someone else car. Then the whole project stops because of something so small lol 

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