Mike and Gordon, thanks for all that reading about speaker cables. I really did have the conversation about faster electrons in Monster Cables, in a little audio store in Maine at my son's college. Great fun, the new physics.

I ran an electronics store fifty years ago. At that time, I wired two adjacent rooms in my house with 16 gauge wire (just fat lamp wire) and haven't touched it since. I still have the original Kenwood amp and tuner, AR turntable, and Pioneer speakers and they all still work great.

I did note that the article mentioned connecting points can become a problem over time, so I just finished disconnecting the speaker wires, stripping the cables a bit, and making new connections on each end. When I am 123, I will do this process again.


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