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Haris Ellahi

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I have the Klipsch Reference Series 7 speakers powered by a Harman Kardon AVR 8500. Should I use 12 gauge cables?
 

PaulT

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Depending on lengths required, 12 should be more than sufficient.

Personally I bought some bulk 12 gauge as I use banana plugs for hook ups. My front runs are about 10 feet.

If you use bare wire on the ends you may find 10ga or even 12ga is too big for your binding posts.
 

Iver

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The dashes in the table mean 'go ahead and use it'
I think he actually means that runs over 50 feet should be avoided, at least based on what he says here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerr7/wire.htm#longerwires

However, Russell also says few people are likely to be able to perceive the difference caused by 50+ foot speaker wire runs.

My opinion is that with 8 Ohm speakers one could probably get away with runs over 50 feet, but it's probably good to avoid them simply because of the level of resistance (and signal attenuation) that comes into play at those lengths.
 

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