Newbie Q: speaker cable length? Different OK?

OK; thanks for the clarification.  So when they referred to the diameter of "individual conductors" in their description they were referring to the diameter of each conductor (+ and -) **including** its insulation.  And when they referred to the outer diameter they were referring to the diameter of the outer jacket which surrounds both conductors over most of the length of the cable.  Makes sense now.

Regards,
-- Al
   

A 12 gauge copper conductor has a diameter of approximately 2 mm, as can be seen in this wire gauge table.

My kind of chart! :)

Yes, Al, to me, too. I felt kind of silly when I figured it out. I still had the 7/17mm figure in my head, and I had the cables in my hand!

Cables should always be the same length.

Wondering about the bare cables, since both amp and speakers will take a bare wire connection, is there any reason not to consider simply going to Lowe's, and buy something like this, plain wire? That example, a 6 gauge would yield like a quarter the resistance of the 12 gauge. (How'm I doing, Al? <grin>) Both speaker and amp would probably take down to a 0-gauge, in terms of size. Is it possible to simply wire them with such cable? (And the "non-metallic" reference, I presume to mean non-shielded, right?)

@czarivey is this the type of solution that you're referring to that you use?