Best Speaker wire?

[pestario]

Hello,

I am recarpeting my frontroom and only have cheap speaker wire running right now. What is the best bang for the buck speaker wire I can get? I want to run the wire before the house gets recarpeted on Thursday.

Thank You

[Gregg Lengling]

When it comes to speaker wire there is no reason to spend big bucks on the so-call Monster Wire.....Monster wire is great when it comes to Coaxial type for Video ect...but with speakers Wire is Wire.   HOWEVER>>>>>>

Buy stranded wire...good copper...depending on the length of run and the power output of your amplifier decides your gauge of wire.  I use 14 gauge stranded on all my speakers.....although in Medium power situations with short runs 16 guage will do.  You can probably buy a good roll of 14 or 16 gauge at Radio Shack.

[borghe]

pound for pound the best (and only) speaker wire I use is Kimber Cable from Audio Emporium... You can go as cheap as $1.80/foot or go nicer all the way up to $14/foot. It is what I have all of my speakers wired with (except my sub which is Mogami).

[mnr929rr]

I heard oxygen free? Just keeps from corroding/