No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need

Mr. wolf_garcia

Could you please elaborate about Mr. Bill Low from Audioquest solution for your speaker cable?

1. What is your amplifier?

2. What is the cable length?

3. What is your speaker?

4. What gauge is the cable he offered you?

Thanks

Mr. mitch2

The cable size and cooper quality:

The gauge figure I’m providing is the optimal. However, even if you get a cable with some impurities in the cooper, it may change the nominal resistance by what? -10%

That’s still O.k. Some of those ridiculous pretentiousness exotic purities and endings are not so important after all. They are more of a marketing tool to segregate one maker from the crowd. At the end, it is the resistance value that matters, and it may have a tolerance. Do not buy the pompous says of those who have an interest to promote their merchandize. You pay much and get almost nothing for it.

As you are going to give it a try (congratulations) please be kind to share the process and the results with us. When that will come, please do it in the format I asked for. Thanks.

Mr. Dill and Mr. geoffkait

Would you please leave this thread and take your business somewhere else?

You're hostile pestering and annoying posts are way overdone. Your only purpose is to sabotage my thread.

Mr. conradnash

Regarding purity of cooper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_conductor

Please pay attention: "Specially-pure Oxygen-Free Electronic (OFE) copper is about 1% more conductive".

The difference between OFC and cooper is: "0.02 to 0.04%".

"The main grade of copper used for electrical applications is electrolytic-tough pitch (ETP) copper (CW004A or ASTM designation C11040). This copper is at least 99.90%"

This is the cooper wires industry standard! So a 0.02 to 0.04% in conductivity, over the "at least 99.90% purity", is so negligible that it is absolutely unimportant for a speaker cable or any audio cable! The say had spread like a plague, when there is no disease and no need for a vaccine! A good sales guy had thrown this "barren say" to the audiophiles, who swallowed it and now can't get rid of it.

It is amazing what this industry can convince you pay for, without any justification.