speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

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speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

Postby jkhuri44 » Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:42 pm

hey guys,

any idea what the best guage for a speaker wire would be for a 100W 1x12 speaker cab im building
Also, its not gonna make much diff what brand i get i take it...?
Cheers in advance!
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Re: speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

Postby Kurt » Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:14 pm

The wire inside most guitar cabs is pretty light. I wired mine up with the speaker wire DSE used to sell, with the transparent orangey sleeving. It's heavier than the average head to cab cable and cost me less than $10 to do my quad. The stuff they sell now is shit btw, the sleeving is really stiff but I'm sure Jaycar would sell something similar. Failing that, you can't go wrong with the good old chopped up 240V extension lead.

jkhuri44 wrote:hey guys,

any idea what the best guage for a speaker wire would be for a 100W 1x12 speaker cab im building
Also, its not gonna make much diff what brand i get i take it...?
Cheers in advance!
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Re: speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

Postby jkhuri44 » Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:27 pm

cheers for the input Kurt :D
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Re: speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

Postby TimS » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:27 am

Jamil,
I used Van Den Hul CS-122 12.5G on my CAE 1x12 100W cabs (I had 2 cabs for stereo setup) - they had Celestion Heritage 100 Watters in them..
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http://www.vandenhul.com/products/cable ... logen-free

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Re: speaker wire guage for 100w guitar speaker.

Postby jkhuri44 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:51 am

cheers for the input! man i finished that a good while ago :-)
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