Nate197 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 I know that having bigger gauge power wire is harder on my amp but, is bigger speaker wire harder on my amp. I was thinking that it would not be hard since the power is coming out of the amp and not into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate197 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 does anybody know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsonoma03 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 the bigger the power wire the less stress you will have on the amp and the bigger speaker wire the less signal loss so the bigger the better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boon Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Bigger wire = less resistance... But this doesn't really affect 'stress' on the amp. All it means is you get slightly more voltage to whatever you're powering, be it the speaker powered by the amp or the amp powered by the car. The only 'stress' it would change would be minutely changing the resistance across the output so the amp would flow more current, but it's a raindrop compared to the lake of variable resistance caused by box impedance rise and inductance in your speaker. 10.x volts fo' life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsonoma03 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Bigger wire = less resistance...But this doesn't really affect 'stress' on the amp. All it means is you get slightly more voltage to whatever you're powering, be it the speaker powered by the amp or the amp powered by the car. The only 'stress' it would change would be minutely changing the resistance across the output so the amp would flow more current, but it's a raindrop compared to the lake of variable resistance caused by box impedance rise and inductance in your speaker. 'b m ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate197 Posted June 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 Ok thanks, than I will probably upgrade my speaker wire to 8 guage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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