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Originally Posted by santosh.s While "power" cable needs to be 20 times thicker in car as compared to home audio systems with similar power ratings, the "speaker" cable requirement should not change much. Because for power supply the voltage is reducing by 20 times, but for speakers both home and car speakers commonly have similar nominal impedance ratings. The most common range is 2-8 ohm. What I am trying to say is that to produce a given amount of power from a given speaker, actual voltage/current requirement (which is fed by AMP to speaker) is going to be same, irrespective of whether the AMP is powered by 12V or 220V. |
I thought most people on the forum kinda knew that, but that's right in any case.
But anyway, it doesn't translate into: All kinds of home audio speaker wire can replace car audio speaker wire. Some home audio speaker is made with lower jacket thickness and is not usually as durable as speciality car audio speaker cable, which is expected to withstand snaking around various parts, getting pulled a bit here and there and sometimes even coping with higher than normal temperatures. Also, car audio speaker cabling needs to have a flexible jacket rather than a very stiff and rigid one found on some home audio speaker cables, this is difficult to turn tight corners. Kicker has some nice cable jackets, really flexible.. the blue one's if anyone's seen em.