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Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot

So I decided to amuse myself and on a recent trip to the Home Depot I bought some 14 gauge speaker wire. 25 ft for under $11.
I have what I think is a good system and my current speaker wires are analysis plus mesh oval 9 terminated in spades. My system is noted in my profile.
I substituted in the 14/2 I picked up- each leg is about 9.5 ft. Tinned bare wire at each end. I did use 4% silver solder.
Quite listenable, though perhaps not as extended at the high end. If someone told me I had to use the Home Depot wire I’d get along just fine. Leads me to one of 4 possible conclusions- 1- my hearing stinks; 2- my fancy Analysis Plus cables aren’t anything special; 3- my system isn’t resolving enough to make a difference; 4- given sufficient gauge, cable is cable. Of course, it’s also possible that my system is so good, any wire will allow that to shine through 
Your thoughts, comments, etc appreciated 

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millercarbon
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Quite listenable, though perhaps not as extended at the high end. If someone told me I had to use the Home Depot wire I’d get along just fine.

Actual quote. Cut and paste.

Leads me to one of 4 possible conclusions- 1- my hearing stinks; 2- my fancy Analysis Plus cables aren’t anything special; 3- my system isn’t resolving enough to make a difference; 4- given sufficient gauge, cable is cable.
Actual quote. Cut and paste. Your words, not mine. Your choices, not mine. If you really are not sure which of these four conclusions, the only ones you say are possible, then its definitely #1.  

When you get better at it you will know it can't possibly be anything but your listening ability that is in question. You will not be able to get along just fine with crappy hookup wire. And you will not be getting into tiffs like this unless... wait a minute- are you trolling me? lol! Takes one to know one. ;)
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zavato OP
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I'm not in a tiff- maybe you are, but hey, if that's your deal, so it's OK.  I am perfectly able to thoroughly enjoy music on an FM car radio in a noisy car and a top shelf audio system with equal measure. Sure, better reproduction is better, but enjoying the song? the two are not the same- 

BTW, nice to see you admit you are a troll. I definitely am not- 
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b_limo
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Zavato, Im disappointed that pic isn’t you... you ought to be ashamed of yourself for misleading me like that.

You can get your AP cables cut down and Re-terminated.  You can end up with 2 pairs and do a shotgun run.  One with spades the other with bananas...

https://analysis.plus/retermination-services/

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gosta
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After thousands of similar posts not so sure about mc's hearing.
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b4icu
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Mr. felixa

Skin effect in audio, is about misunderstanding of the fenomena. The  Skin effect, is mostly about two criteria that do not apply to speaker cables:
1. High power at high (audio high) Fr. with full power BW. 
In Audio, the last two octaves are mainly harmonies. They are 20 dB or less of the average SPL. Most thicker cables, that can handle power as high as 20A @ 8 ohms = 3,200W need to handle way less (32W!) and the -20 dB is 100 times less, so it's about 0.32W of 0.2A
If you check on the AWG table: 
https://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
A #12 AWG wire has a BW of  4150 Hz @ 9.3A or 107 KHz @  0.361A
Actually, the skin effect fenomena DO NOT exists in audio FR. and cables. It is an Audio daler/dealer BS to have an outstanding product over snake oil advantage. Bringing it up again and again' doesn't make it true.

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