Have you ever skinned a speaker cable?


I'm thinking about removing the outer cover from some speaker cable
and using just the inside wire.

The cable is just too unbendable as-is and I think I have enough to cut in half and double-up (make 10 gauge into 5 gauge).

Anyone try this before?
128x128dweller
Why on earth do you need 5 ga. cables? Do you have a 5 mile run to your speakers?

-RW-
As a point of information, two 10 gauge wires in parallel are equivalent in terms of resistance to 7 gauge, not 5 gauge.

I believe that for any gauge a factor of two change in resistance (which would occur if two identical wires were paralleled) is the equivalent of a difference of three gauge sizes, to a very close approximation.

Regards,
-- Al