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


I'm considering purchasing some 14 awg solid core wire to use as speaker cable.  I will be doubling this up to make 11 awg speaker cable. My amplifiers, Red Dragon S-500, have binding posts which DO NOT have a hole drilled in the center of the shaft for inserting wire (they are hollowed out for banana plugs but that's not what I am referring to here nor do I need).  I'll be connecting the speaker wire without attachments, no spades, bananas, nor pins.  To get a good connection, it would be ideal if I could take the wire and, at the half way point, wrap it around the amplifier binding post, then run the two ends out to the speakers.  Will this work or will connecting the wire in this manner be problematic?  Do I need to cut the wire into 2 runs?  Thanks!

lcherepkai

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

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.

Better to use 12GA stranded copper, single conductor for each polarity. Go to Lowes or Home Deport and get 12GA stranded copper THHN from Smithwire. Cheap and pretty darn good.