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05-12-2004, 04:59 PM
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Home Depot outdoor extention cord...
Does anyone use this for speaker wire? I recently read about it in The Absolute Sound. The gave it a favorable review. It's 14g black and orange outdoor cable. You snip off the AC ends and attatch some termination. There are 3 wires inside the jacket, each with their own shielding. The 3rd wire is the ground, which, I just left alone.
As far as I can tell, it sounds great. I'm just curious if anyone else uses this extention cable? I know other's here have used Home Depot speaker wire, but outdoor extention cord??
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05-12-2004, 05:05 PM
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05-12-2004, 05:57 PM
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Wow, interesting. NOT what I was expecting to see! I was thinking more along the lines:
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But no; you make me go  instead! 
Heh, can't help you here...I've never used it for speaker wire before.
But w/the price of good quality 12 gauge wire so cheap How can you go wrong? I'd order this stuff instead. My $.02. Good luck.
Yeah, I base all my HT purchases on the WAF, too. Wallet Acceptance Factor.
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05-12-2004, 07:18 PM
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I had one of the longer HD ext cords that "someone" hacked (luckily I wasn't using it when they sliced halfway through it at the door). I was all bent and was gonna trash it when I stumbled on the Quad reference to this stuff (they reportedly used it for their gear at a show in London), so I figured what the heck, finished hacking it into equal halves and hooked up the mains in the den with it. Grand shtuff! Never got eaten by the vacuum or the cat.
i'm past the golden ear/teenage days so I probably couldn't hear any difference anyway (and I'd sold my metering gear long before) but shockingly enough no one else could ever hear a difference. I've also tried the outdoor 12v 12awg from HD along w/ regular 12AWG SoundKing equivalent. All were indistinguishable. All were runs of 8 to 17 feet at most, so you wouldn't expect any perceivable difference from the speakers.
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05-12-2004, 09:39 PM
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Speaker wire will forever generate a fun debate that's for sure. I just thought it was interesting to see a publication like the Absolute Sound throw this wire in along with high end cables just for kicks.
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05-13-2004, 06:58 AM
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Many people also are raving about the use of THHN (building wire) as speaker cables. You can buy just about any color/guage size under the rainbow and twist it to look exactly like some higher-end cables.
Bill
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05-13-2004, 10:03 AM
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I bought some and tried it out. Predictably it sounded as bad (or good, take your pick) as the purpose built cable it replaced. Wire really is wire... IMHO. If the color works, I'd say go for it.
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05-13-2004, 11:34 AM
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What does Home Depot have to do with it? Any extension cable that has similar specs will do the same... not to mention you can just buy the cable used to make electrical cords in bulk and use it all you like, without wasting the plugs.
In-wall wire comes in 2 and 4 conductor jacketed cables, and is cheap.
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05-13-2004, 04:27 PM
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Good point, I think they might have just picked the HD outdoor cord because it had 3 (only need 2 of course) 14g wires nicely insulted, inside a good quality jacket. I'm sure there are 100 + 1 other extention cords/wires that would suffice, but the magazine wasn't going to review them all.
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05-13-2004, 10:39 PM
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It's 14g black and orange outdoor cable.
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You can also get it in yellow, blue or green. And also in 12-guage.
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...not to mention you can just buy the cable used to make electrical cords in bulk and use it all you like, without wasting the plugs.
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Indeed, you can get four-conductor SJOW, SOW, etc. cable stock – presto, instant biamp/biwire speaker cable. 
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Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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