What AWG wire is the best for a 12" sub?

[bass_master 10+ year member]

What AWG wire is the best for a 12" sub when your feeding it about 120W RMS?

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[bass_master 10+ year member]

whats funny dude??

 

[chris229 10+ year member]

Originally posted by bass_master What AWG wire is the best for a 12" sub when your feeding it about 120W RMS?

12-14 is standard---- 120W was the funny part

 

[prodigy 10+ year member]

i use a 14gauge to hit my 10" infinity from a 250W rms amp.... t'was perfect.... 15gauge and above ... u cannot feel the power.... 14 below.... the bass is either too muddy....

we'll wire gauge measurement sure play a role in audiophile.... funny.. but tis' true....

*just my 2 cent*

 

[bass_master 10+ year member]

sorry made a mistake, it should have been what gauge wire would be alright for a 10" sub at 120W. Woops! Your right about 120W not being much for a 12" sub:crazy: I'm guessing it should be about the same? 14AWG?

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by bass_master sorry made a mistake, it should have been what gauge wire would be alright for a 10" sub at 120W. Woops! Your right about 120W not being much for a 12" sub:crazy: I'm guessing it should be about the same? 14AWG?

14awg should be fine enough. Again it is of little concern at a lesser power. Good luck

 

[Fuel37 10+ year member]

i use 8 awg with 150 wrms (overkill) //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Cieprus 10+ year member]

Im running 0/1 to my 50 watt Radioshack speakers...I hope there getting full juice!

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[Fuel37 10+ year member]

lol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif some peoples kids //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[chris229 10+ year member]

Originally posted by prodigy i use a 14gauge to hit my 10" infinity from a 250W rms amp.... t'was perfect.... 15gauge and above ... u cannot feel the power.... 14 below.... the bass is either too muddy....

 

we'll wire gauge measurement sure play a role in audiophile.... funny.. but tis' true....

 

*just my 2 cent*

your not really claimng you can hear the difference in wire are you ? -------- you can't hear it

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by chris229 your not really claimng you can hear the difference in wire are you ? -------- you can't hear it

LOL Not this debate again Chris we can point em to that other thread LOL

 

[prodigy 10+ year member]

gooday,

what i mean was.. by changing the wires from different gauge did make the sound coming out from the speakers sounded different...

btw, in my company... we have this sound room.. and i did learn a little from the sound engineer...

anyway.. just my 2 cent... according to my ears and my setup and my car and of cos the ambient at that time... i use to tune my car late at nigh... so from my judgement and my ears...i did notice the different when i switch wire....

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[Fuel37 10+ year member]

there is no way you could tell the difference unless you went from like 22 awg to 16 awg or something like that. and even there the difference probably wouldn't be audible.

 

[Cieprus 10+ year member]

even a small jump like 22 to 16 wouldnt be noticable.... maybe a strand of 22 to 16 guage

 

[Fuel37 10+ year member]

yeah i should have went a little more extreme in my comparison sorry bout that!

 

[Cieprus 10+ year member]

dont be lol...

Wait should I get 0/1 for my spark plug wires to increase performance???

hahaha

 

[Fuel37 10+ year member]

i would highly recommend it. you'd probably be looking at a 50-75 hp increase. (at least)//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif