Home-depo extention cord to rewire stero?

[bryant.cw]

http://www.inwallstore.com/product_p/14AWG4500.htm?gclid=CMaq5424i54CFSReagodsS4NtQ

Home Depot has some stuff like this, but not the same brand. Makes no difference really.

Extension cord cable is gonna be huge, ugly, stiff, and totally unnecessary. Ethernet cable is solid core not stranded and is a pain to work with, braiding takes forever etc. I had some in my home hi-fi for a couple years, but after that time the inflexibility of the braided cat5 rubbed through one of the jackets, shorted, and fried $400 of nice adcom gear. Never again.

14ga, 4 conductor stranded and jacketed in-wall cable is what you want. The jacket will protect from crimping and rubbing (to a point, no cable is impervious to total abuse), it slides and pulls easily through spaces unlike the sticky outer jacket on monstrous cable, it is clearly color coded, lets you run to 2 speakers with one cable, or twist them together to make a bigger gauge if thats your thing. Its plenty flexible and super easy to strip and work with. It doesn't look stupid. It works. Lastly, its cheap.

Home depot had some 14.4 for me the other day at 50¢ a foot.

[stumble_t]

I've made some nice speaker wires out of cat5. it takes a while and in the end the Belden 5000up sounds just as good and its cheap. You want a multi-stranded cable (more the better) for the particular gauge you're using. The extension cord cable is cheap and nice however I think it makes the highs suffer a bit.

[Jean]

Insulation has nothing to do with it when you are dealing with high current setting like the amp to speaker wire, and not the low level stuff like the pre-amp to amp.

You won't notice a damn difference running a run of the mill speaker wire vs electrical cord/extension wire. Seriously. Use whatever you like / or is cheaper.