I was wondering if there is a big difference between the expensive Streetwires compaired to the cheap kind that you can get at walmart. im looking at $200 for all the wires i need for my two amp system if i buy streetwires. if i buy the cheap ones at walmart its $40. will there be a $160 dollar difference? i feel like oxygen free copper wire is the same no matter what name is on the insulation but im a rookie at this stuff!
I believe that you are mostly right. But some wire kits are better than others. But $160 difference, I don't think so.
well ive been researching this very intensly and figured i would share this with everyone. the companies are held to a standard of wire production. All 4 awg wire must be a certain size to be sold as 4 awg. the difference between the cheap wire and the expensive wire is a combination of the amount of copper in the wire and the advertisement for the brand names. cheap wire is typically more aluminum then copper. the expensive wire is more copper than anything else. again you pay for it being a brand name and for car audio. my research turned up that welding wire is cheap and 100% copper. i just bought 25 feet of 4 awg 100% copper wire from a welding supply store for $.94 a foot compared to $3.99 a foot for JL wire. the kicker is it has even more strands then car audio wire which means its more efficient!
some other things to look think about. 1 thing is the thickness of the insulation on the outside of the wire, i really love Knuconceptz kolosus (sp?) cable, really nice stuff and not that expensive. Welding wire is not insulated and also not that pliable, try running 18ft of that through your car and you will soon find out why we dont use it, not to mention trying to solder it onto a terminal or wire it into a compression fitting, and of course you would need to put some kind of insulation on the entire wire. It not only keeps it from grounding out but also from rusting. Just some things to think about.
