A scan of the Mudcat literature regarding hooking up home speaker systems offers many general and some specific hints scattered through some threads that represent older generation equipment. I'm hooking up a several years-old (but new to me) receiver to various devices, and I decided I needed more speaker wire.

You wouldn't think this would be a "thing," but it is. The thin white or clear-vinyl coated wires are apparently inadequate in all sorts of ways. And when you start looking into types of wire you find various metals; some a mystery metal in thin wires, others are various gauges of CCA (Copper Clad Aluminum) and then you get the various weights of pure-Copper lines.

I am aware of the counter-intuitive information about wire gauge, i.e., the lower the number the heavier the wire. I read some site reviews in a few places, did some Googling, and decided to try some 14-gauge copper wire (and to get it I had to go online, so I didn't see it in a store first). Wow. This stuff is heavy compared to all of the other wires around the house, but reviewers seemed to detect a discernible difference between the types (mostly discussing the thin cheap versus the thicker gauge; the comparable-sized pure-Copper vs CCA jury still seems to be out.)

I found an interesting thread that was talking about the right amount of power the speakers used with the in-home system (and as usual, our late member JohnInKansas offered a comprehensive answer on the topic). But it didn't touch on the wire being used between the receiver and the speakers. I am looking at using my large existing speakers and adding a couple of more (the receiver has lots of connectors for speakers, but I'm not setting up the full home theater - I regularly find nice speakers at thrift stores and will add another pair of those to the system.)

Have any of you given this consideration, and what did you put in place?