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Audiolabryrinth: "AWG" refers to "American Wire Gauge", a standard unit of measure for a single piece of "wire". When someone lists something of the form 6+ AWG, it is probably meant to imply the wire is more than 6 gauge (and probably less than 7 gauge depending upon written context). For audio cables, or any cables of any kind made up of more than one conductor, you need an "effective gauge" calculator to determine the actual effective gauge of the resulting cable made up of more than one piece/strand of wire of a particular gauge and/or multiple strands of wires each of different gauges.

For example, if you have a cable made up of 10, 24 awg wires, its effective gauge is 14, not 24. Multi-gauge calcs of multiple wire/strands for each gauge (typical of many audio cables) yield more interesting results. As you can imagine, "big bad audio" power cables and speaker cables generally are of lower effective gauges and things like interconnects, etc...are of higher effective gauge.

***Note: I say "generally" as there are clearly many exceptions to this observation for many good reasons....***

Reasonably good effective gauge calcs for both single-gauge and multi-gauge blends can be found in many places on the web,...here is one that yields good results;

http://www.wirebarn.com/Wire-Calculator_ep_42.html

If you wanted to determine the effective gauge of any of your Tara Cables, you'd need to know the specifics of what goes into it.

See Wikipedia for more detail on AWG, what it means to wire, composite cables, etc...and other listings on the web regarding effective gauge for more details...

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" ... When someone lists something of the form 6+ AWG, it is probably meant to imply the wire is more than 6 gauge (and probably less than 7 gauge depending upon written context).

A wire of 6+ AWG doesn't mean anything at all. That's not a standardized way of expressing wire gauge.

A 7 AWG wire is actually smaller that 6 AWG wire so a wire that is "more" than 6 AWG will certainly also be more than 7 AWG. As the number goes up, the actual gauge (thickness) goes down.

Absolutely,...thanks for the correction and the note Cleeds.

Thankyou everyone, I will get to the bottom of this, if I'm not mistaken, because of separate negative and positive runs, this may be 4awg, I'll get one of the audiogon technology guy's to come here and post.

If you have separate negative and positive runs for speaker cables (typical of Tara The ONE, 0.8 and possibly later models,...one of the features I rather liked when I owned my Tara products), you definitely have to sum the wires by gauge and count in each of the legs of one channel/side of the set and derive the effective gauge....