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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DidUHearThat?" data-source="post: 5000632" data-attributes="member: 594758">Common 18 gauge lamp cord, called Zip cord, is also sold as speaker wire.  They are the same.Wires come in many sizes, thread counts and jacket types, but copper is copper.  "Quality" of the wire has more to do with specialized features like corrosion resistance, silver content, flexibilty, jacket resistence to chemicals/heat/abrasion, ease of use, cost, etc.Mostly when talking about wire the most important features are thickness, strands, number of conductors, corrosion resistance and jacket type.  Everything else is window dressing.Signal cable can get a little more complicated when you start adding in shields, grounds, strain relief, colors, number of conductors, etc.</blockquote>

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