Dedicated power


After a lot of research and consideration, mostly between power conditioners and dedicated circuitry, I have decided to go with 3 dedicated lines. One for amp one for pre and a 3rd for CD or digital. What I'm thinking is that I can pull the wire myself and then hire a professional electrician to do the breaker work and wall terminations using hospital grade outlets. My question is what wire should I use? I have heard of people using 12-2 or 10-2 but don't have knowledge of wire specific details. Anybody up on this?
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One more thing to keep in mind is something I've picked up on this forum as I too am installing dedicated lines (Thanks again Gs5556). The #/2 or #/3 represents how many hot leads are in the wire. A 12/2 for example in a standard Romex includes an individually jacketed black wire which is the "Hot", an individually jacketed white wire which is the "neutral" and a bare/wrapped in loose - paper-only copper wire which is the ground wire. On a standard outlet receptacle the black goes to the brass screw, the white to the silver looking screw and the bare copper goes to the green painted screw usually located below and to one side. I have taken the advice of several people and am going with a 12/3 arrangement because these contain 2 hot leads (both are jacketed) and because I want to use a jacketed ground wire instead of bare I will label one of these black hots with green tape and use it as a ground wire to connect to that green ground screw on the terminal. In this case the bare copper wire is simply ignored/unused. This facilitates using Isolated Grounding schemes from whichever outlets you want to run an I/G ground system with. As far as I've been told this is supposedly an acceptable practice but the I/G outlets must run their grounding wires to a separate isolated grounding bar and ultimately out to a buried grounding rod. Does this still sound legitimate to you Gs5556? P.S. My distance from breaker box to outlets is less than 30' each and therefore I'm choosing the much easier to work with 12G instead of the 10G... I hope there's no possibility of audible difference at any time? Good lick with your project.