[BC] Just what YOU need!

[Glen Kippel]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM, <cld at admin.umass.edu> wrote:

>
> While helping a friend, an Electronics Engineer with a Master?s degree,
> move to
> his new home, I bought a roll of zip-cord to hook up his new HI-FI
> speakers. He
> questioned using 60-cycle wire for his 20 kHz audio system, but I thought
> it was
> just a game he was playing.
>
> A few weeks later, I was invited to his house-warming party and noticed
> that the
> #14 high-current zip-wires I had installed, had been replaced by #18
> "oxygen-free" speaker wires at $120 per roll, $60 per connection.
>
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Nyuk, nyuk!  P.T. Barnum strikes again!  You should have hooked up his
speakers with Romex, or better yet, 000.  That should handle the wattage.
But, assuming that his speakers had any efficiency at all (i.e. not Acoustic
Research or similar) he could fill up the room with less than one watt per
channel.  Anything bigger than magnet wire would work at that power level.