Speaker Wiring Opinions Sought

[gnesterenko 10+ year member]

Afternoon folks, happy Good Friday!

So I've just about finished assembling the various materials for my car audio project. At least all the important pieces are lined up in terms of hardware and sound deadening. Now we're onto the wiring. Today talking specifically about speaker wiring.

Now I'm not one to ever drop money on name brand cables so don't you DARE say Monster. Would be willing to do Knu or Streetwires, but honestly, they aren't THAT much cheaper... Thought briefly about using Monoprice.com speaker cables, however read a few posts on these forums that say they discolor and begin to corrode within 8 months due to the wet environment in car doors.

So I've found this:

14 AWG Direct Burial OFC Speaker Wire. Seems sepcifically designed to stand up to moist applications. I'm thinking that using that wiring, dielectric grease, plus some of these terminal endings on the ends that run into to the door speakers: (25) 3M HEAT SHRINK FEMALE SPADE MARINE WIRE CONNECTORS - eBay (item 350393813203 end time May-11-11 10:56:47 PDT) since the speaker end of the wire is the only place that I expect to be exposure to moisture.

Opinions?

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[Kangaroux 5,000+ posts]

I just use knu. it may be more expensive than other brands it works good and it's quality stuff. what speakers are we talking about?

 

[gnesterenko 10+ year member]

Starting out with Hybrid Audio Imagines 6.5" all around. May be upgrading to the Clarus line in the near term though (due to HAT's awesome trade-in policy). So 100W RMS into 4ohms right off the bat, may at some point push to 150W RMS