Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance?

You really need a micro-ohmeter to measure such small resistances. best bet is to calculate it. if it is too high, then you need larger wire. the manual only mentioned "resistence" which is a funcion of wire gauge and length only, so the inductive portion of impedance apparently isn’t a problem for these speakers, still it should be minimized. Avoid loops, for example.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/copper-wire-d_1429.html

Also avoid alloy wires for speakers. Surprisingly, alloys are always higher resistance--add silver to copper and you get an alloy that is a worse conductor than either silver or copper alone.

As for your question, the impedence of the speaker is the load where power is turned into sound, the resistance (lets equiate it to impedence) of the cable is the circuit that transmits the signal to the speaker. You don’t want any of the power being disipated there.

Jerry

@atmasphere and ​​​​​@carlsbad2 and @everybody else who tried to dumb this down an explain it for me--thank you.

@atmasphere and ​​​​​@carlsbad2 I now know that on a couple of levels I wouldn’t get an accurate reading--for one the meter I was using,

and also: the fact that I was taking my reading from the amplifier post (with cables hooked up) to speaker wire post of speaker (with cables hooked up, and then again from amp post to the other end with cables NOT hooked up on speaker end).

Either way, that probably screwed up the measurement I was TRYING to take, right?

So last question: the actual resistance was probably way lower that the 0.07 and 0.05 that I THOUGHT that I was reading?

And as an aside, my speaker cables (Kimber, and I THINK I remember that they they are 8TC and 4TC) probably are longer than what would be considered ideal.

Your 8TC cables are 9AWG equivalent which is heavy enough for any run inside a listening room.  You have nothing to worry about.

Jerry

Your 8TC cables are 9AWG equivalent which is heavy enough for any run inside a listening room.  You have nothing to worry about.

Okay, thanks for getting back to me on that, @carlsbad2  , the reason I mentioned it is because in one of my earlier configurations, in a larger room, I bought cables that were made up to be long enough that my year was not situated between speakers but on a side wall.  Therefore they are longer.  

@immatthewj As a general rule of thumb, no matter what speaker cable you have, its good practice to keep it as short as possible. This is why monoblock amplifiers are common in high end audio as it allows the shortest cable length possible.

If the cable was connected to an amplifier and speaker, the reading you got isn't representative of anything. That's a pretty good meter that can read 0.05 Ohms BTW!