Have you ever skinned a speaker cable?

Skinned a few cats in my day :), lol. I have used cable slitters to do this job. Have fun!

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/cable-slitter

Why on earth do you need 5 ga. cables? Do you have a 5 mile run to your speakers?

-RW-

As a point of information, two 10 gauge wires in parallel are equivalent in terms of resistance to 7 gauge, not 5 gauge.

I believe that for any gauge a factor of two change in resistance (which would occur if two identical wires were paralleled) is the equivalent of a difference of three gauge sizes, to a very close approximation.

Regards,
-- Al

Almarg: Thanks for the contribution!

I don't really "need" 5 guage wire but I need to satisfy my curiosity.
I currently use Harmonic Tech Pro-9 which, IMO, dumps current like nobody's business -Really great macro dynamics. I have some HT Pro-11 that I'd like to experiment with to see what will happen (i.e., if I skin and double it).

Yes, I know I have too much time on my hands...

I've seen a Youtube of my speaker cables being cut to pieces. I does not affect my opinion at all. The following is why I picked my cables. A local audiophile and equipment collector loaned me a large amount of cables to audition in my system. All the product was from well respected companies, at the time. I liked the brand with the stupid looking plastic box present in the cable run. MIT cables just sounded better with my gear and in my room. Funny, I tried not to like them. I hate those crazy looking plastic boxes but sometime it's not about how it looks but how it sounds.