Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable


I have access to some bare very fine silver wire.
What can I cover it with so it doesnt short?
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Showing 1 response by metralla

How heavy a gauge you need (thus requiring more than one strand of the "very fine silver wire" per leg) surely depends on what amount of resistive loss you can support without an ability to compensate through increased volume.

If the amps are very close to the speaker (assuming monoblocks and a separate preamp), you would be able to use very short lengths, and may not need "to layer and bundle it to make large enough conductors for speaker cable".

I am suspicious heavy gauge speaker cables. What problem are they trying to address?

I'd be looking for some natural cotton sleeving.

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