Have you ever skinned a speaker cable?

Update: I purchased some WBT "Midline" (less than $1000 ea. LOL) banana plugs for the amp end of my HT Pro-9s.

Since these have been reterminated many times, the wires that connect to the equipment are short.

I decided to remove about six inches of outer jacket to reveal more wire.

The outer coating was tougher than I thought and the inner
wires are wrapped as Mitch2 said.

The large (woofer) conductor uses 8 Teflon coated 20 gauge solid core wires (no foaming here) and the small (tweeter) conductor uses smaller (22? 24? gauge).

Some of the 20 gauge were broken but I was in a hurry so I did my best and twisted everything together and screwed on the WBTs. I didn't have the patience or a good wire stripper to do the job right but will return in the future (where does one purchase a precise stripper for 24 gauge wire?).

The sound does not appear to be affected.

Given the toughness of the Pro-9 outer jacket, I've changed my mind about skinning the darned thing.

Why would you do that??

As I said before, easier to skin a cat. LOL :)

02-02-14: Ebm
"Why would you do that??"

"Because it's there".

Seriously, the Pro-9 is more than 15 years old and I'm thinking of new speaker wire in the near future.

I wanted to strip off the outer casing to see how the inner wire would sound on its own.

For new wire I'm thinking: Wireworld Eclipse-7, Synergistic Element Tungsten, Nordost Tyr/Valhalla series I or Shunyata Python Ztron.

Anyone have advice?