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Michael Sadkin
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Username: Fiatster

Baldwinsville, NY
United States

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Registered: Sep-05
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 08:03 pm:    Edit Post
I am a newbie at this and need some advise. I just bought a Onkyo HT-S780 system and have set it up. I have heard that the speaker wires should be upgraded. I did buy 16g for the 2 back speakers because the amount of wire that was included was not enough. I would like to know the sizes that would be best for the remaining 5 speakers. Thank you. Mike
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Nathan Stohler
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Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 10:13 am:    Edit Post
See the following link:

http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm#wiretable

This gives you an idea of how long your speaker wire can be at a particular gauge before you start running into significant power loss (5% or more).

Unless you have long runs of wire, 16 gauge is probably fine.
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