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monoprice has good cables, but if you're replacing 2x32ft lengths, you'd need >50ft of cable (unless you cut your original cables too long? in which case the 50ft would be ~$20 after shipping)
monoprice 100ft 12 gauge is ~$36 shipped anyway, 14 gauge is ~$30 shipped, so walmart is still a good option
 
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as per audioholics 16 gauge is fine for 20 ft, and 14 gauge for 35 ft, while suffering almost no loss of audio quality

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Metra-S14-...re-50/21015920
walmart has the 50ft 14 gauge metra/raptor copper oxygen free stuff for $12
you'll probably want to replace the cables for your fronts too though

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...XWYFHE0K85NGA7
amazon.com has the metra/raptor 14 gauge 100ft for ~$20 (galactics has free shipping, or you can buy it from amazon and get free 2 day shipping with trial of amazon prime [Amazon gives you an easy way to have prime automatically cancel after the trial period https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...0444170#cancel; all you have to do is checkmark a setting, awesome right?])

a lot of people report that metra sells cables that are short by ~10% so assume that you're getting 45ft (out of 50) or 90ft (out of 100)
 
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ok i got the speaker wire and hooked it up it stopped shutting off until i turn the volume up to -5db then it does it again ? whats the problem
 
I'm still suspicious that you have a ohm problem, potentionally due to a bad speaker. Did you try using different speaker combinations? I.e. Just front, just rear, just center, etc. Unless the problem is related to wiring or a speaker, you might have a bad reciever.
 
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I'm still suspicious that you have a ohm problem, potentionally due to a bad speaker. Did you try using different speaker combinations? I.e. Just front, just rear, just center, etc. Unless the problem is related to wiring or a speaker, you might have a bad reciever.
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i don't think so because i tested them on my friends receiver and it didn't do it ?
 
so did you or did you not test each speaker/wire independently?

Hook up one speaker to 1 channel, then see how it works. Then test all channels with that speaker/wire.

if that works fine, introduce speaker 2/ wire 2 and repeat.
 
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when i was doing it i never had a problem with 0nly 2Ch 2speakers connected it was fine
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how loud were you cranking it? and I said you have to test all the channels

so in the 2 speaker test, you keep 1 speaker static and move the other one around. if that works fine, then move to 3 speakers, with 2 connected and you move 1 connection around.
 
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Durvelle27 said:
volume like -5dB 2CH and 3CH are the only setups that are working when i did what you said
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when you say -5db, does that mean you have calibrated the speaker levels with spl meter?

also, are the speakers set to small in your receiver setup?

I find -5db to be very loud. I usually listen in the -20 range if I want it to be loud. Normal I think I am usually at -30
 
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