Ethernet wire for speakers?

Should I use Ethernet wire for my speakers?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • No

    Votes: 4 80.0%
  • Total voters
    5
Wire is wire. I used phone cables a while back when dad brought home a surplus of it (he had some really nice copper wire from the phone company)
 
Depends on the amperage. If its lower wattage(<25watt) ethernet cable(cat..5/5e/6?) would work alright, but higher than that you would start overloading the small wires inside the network cable. Ethernet is only like 28/30 guage, super low load capacity. Is it really that much trouble to grab a 500ft roll of speaker wire from your closest radioshack(last resort, hardware stores are usually cheaper)/lowe's/home depot/menards?

BTW-Cant resist.... I dont think ethernet wire would make good speakers as its just wire, it doesnt have a magnet, diaphram, etc... So you wouldnt want to use it as your speakers:P
 
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Ethernet wire is extremely low gauge, unless your running the cheapest, low-powered speakers I would stick with higher gauged speaker cable.
 
bomberboysk said:
BTW-Cant resist.... I dont think ethernet wire would make good speakers as its just wire, it doesnt have a magnet, diaphram, etc... So you wouldnt want to use it as your speakers:P
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He meant speaker wires, not speakers.

And I would agree, speaker wires are really cheap...why not just buy a roll of it somewhere?
 
diduknowthat said:
He meant speaker wires, not speakers.

And I would agree, speaker wires are really cheap...why not just buy a roll of it somewhere?
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I know he meant speaker wires, read my post and you can even see that i saw that, i was just joking about the order of words he used;) Hence the emotes.....
 
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