This isn't a home theater question, but I didn't know where else to put it.

My pool area speaker wire needs to be replaced.

I have ten 8ohm speakers around my pool. I have them "shoe laced" - meaning speaker 1 is left, speaker 2 is right, speaker 3 is left, speaker 4 is right, etc. With this setup all of the speakers are in stereo.

I use a 3,000 watt amp to drive them.

In my current setup each speaker has a wire that runs back to the amp. This is a lot of wire (about 1,000 feet). I then splice all of the wire together, wrap them with a 14 gauge copper wire, and insert into the amp.

Can I simply run two wires (left and right) around the pool, and splice each speaker into the wire, or do I have to run a wire for each speaker?

Thanks for helping.

I am thinking that you will need to have individual wires to power each of them. Lots of wire, but worth it of course.

Nevermind that. Since you are splicing them at the amp, you can splice them anywhere. So, no, you don't need a homerun wire from every speaker. You do need 2 separate runs for the 2 channels.

I'm using just 2 channels

Thanks for the help. You saved me a lot of time, and some $.

This is exactly how PA systems with many speakers are hooked up.

You should consider the impedence load you are putting on your amp and ensure that it is within manufacturers specs. Here is a link that does a pretty good job of explaining series and parralel speaker wiring:

http://www.rocketroberts.com/techart/spk_wire.htm