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<blockquote data-quote="ylpkm" data-source="post: 8315462" data-attributes="member: 655818">Are you saying you never drop in voltage in a home voltage of 120 vac? Idk, but turn on a 1200 watt (in home) device and monitor the drop in the 110-120 volt range, i bet it goes down just a bit...True the OP might not be running 4000 watts on .5 ohms on 14 gauge wire, which the calculator says there may be audible loss, but others might be.Just turned on my 1100 watt microwave and monitored drop, dropped 2 volts (122 volts to 120). whereas amp voltage can be 1.5-3 times lower, the drop would be even more. Apparently home wire gauge is 12-14. None the less, there is power loss. just like power in a home comes from a power source juxtapose it to a car audio situation. Amp is the source, and the speaker is like the microwave. but the microwave only uses a max amount of power, whereas the speaker &quot;takes&quot; what it is given.A person with a multi sub build wired toMaybe I am wrong, but in a multi thousand dollar build, I would rather get thicker wire and save some watts, rather than cheap out and lose watts to resistance because people say hundreds of watts are not enough to matter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ylpkm, post: 8315462, member: 655818"] Are you saying you never drop in voltage in a home voltage of 120 vac? Idk, but turn on a 1200 watt (in home) device and monitor the drop in the 110-120 volt range, i bet it goes down just a bit... True the OP might not be running 4000 watts on .5 ohms on 14 gauge wire, which the calculator says there may be audible loss, but others might be. Just turned on my 1100 watt microwave and monitored drop, dropped 2 volts (122 volts to 120). whereas amp voltage [I]can[/I] be 1.5-3 times lower, the drop would be even more. Apparently home wire gauge is 12-14. None the less, there is power loss. just like power in a home comes from a power source juxtapose it to a car audio situation. Amp is the source, and the speaker is like the microwave. but the microwave only uses a max amount of power, whereas the speaker "takes" what it is given. A person with a multi sub build wired to Maybe I am wrong, but in a multi thousand dollar build, I would rather get thicker wire and save some watts, rather than cheap out and lose watts to resistance because people say hundreds of watts are not enough to matter. [/QUOTE]

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