Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner?

@lcherepkai So for slugs, you have a very short piece with a very large diameter. the higher specific resistivity of the other metals your are trying has little effect.

However, I think in speaker wires which are much longer and smaller in diameter the total resistance will be measurable and I think you’ll see significant degradation from the higher resistance of these materials, especially on bass and dynamic sections. So start with the least expensive.

As far as the original post of solid copper, there is obviously not a conductivity issue and people have been known to conclude that solid cores sound better than stranded so I think your plan sounds very interesting.

I also support your plan to eliminate connectors. connectors can be significant sources of bad connections, especially inexpensive bananas or any non-crimped/or soldered connectors. I use crimped and soldered naked bfa style connectors.

Best of luck,

Jerry

Jerry--won't be using the experimental metals on the bass drivers so hopefully not an issue there.  Would doubling up the doubled-up 14awg wire to a total of 8awg significantly lower the resistance?  At $26/m for the niobium, that's still much cheaper than most decent speaker cable and the titanium can be had for even less.

Why can’t you just start out with using 11- or 10-gauge wire?

If you must use 2 separate wires, twist them together but leave enough length on each to run one on one side of the lug and the other on the other side and then tighten the ends together outside of the lug.

Then tighten the nut down or lug fastener.

ozzy

14 gage romex is easy to work with.10 gage not so much.

Ozzy---the largest diameter niobium wire I found is 14 gauge.  I was planning on getting runs twice the length I need and wrapping the amp binding post with the mid-point and then running both ends out to the speakers.  I don't want to use separate wires at the amp end as I'm concerned about stripping the threads on the amp binding posts.  I did this already once and don't want a repeat.