Wouldn’t the wire at least get warm if you played it at a continual hundred watts?Report this
Two part response here:
1) These are 25-watt monoblocks going into horn-loaded loudspeakers. So they will never see 100 watts. Not even at peaks.
2) Heat generation is directly proportional to resistance and current. More resistance + more current = more heat. The amount of current flowing through a speaker wire is laughably small, even with big SS amps. And further, if a small-gauge speaker wire was at risk of catching fire at 100 watts, you'd have to think that the much tinier wires on the other end of the speaker's crossover would instantly burst into flames, because they're typically 24AWG or smaller.