i find the use of that kind of speaker wire all the time in bc canada and it has been installed very recently when i ask the home owner about it they say that a new company is installing it as prewire and and after an inspector has left who can compete with this as i need apermit to install any wire for sound, satellite, data, etc i also find it recently installed in office pa systems by so called sound contractors found in the yellow pages in vancouver bc they require ft-6 ouch