Amazon Basics 16-Gauge Speaker Wire 1.3 mm² - 30.48 m (100 feet), Bronze

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Rated for both in-wall and direct burial use, this two-conductor high strand count copper cable provides excellent signal transfer for installations where background music is needed, and the 16-gauge thickness is ideal for shorter wire runs (under 50 ft) with 8-ohm speakers. Speaker wires did not exist on the market for most of the 20th century, though speaker systems were very much the thing.

Heck the markup on these "audiophile" things make guys like this author extra money from selling nothing more than a shiny rock to suckers. This is to ensure your home stays safe when the cabling is placed near potentially flammable materials within your ceiling or walls. Your mileage may vary depending on what speakers you're using and what receiver you've got pushing them, but I was forever sold on audiophile cables after my experience. However, for longer speaker wire runs (to another room, for example), it is better to use a thicker, lower-gauge wire. It includes a pair of studio-quality headphones, and a guide to getting the most out of your session, and a few other necessary items.This provides a more secure connection than binding posts, but it will depend on which type of connector your speakers require. Our 16 Gauge 2-Core Speaker Cable is perfect for in-ceiling, in-wall and other passive speaker installation.

If you've listened to high-quality cables and connectors and they don't do it for you, more power to you!

If you decide to hook up your wire without connectors, use a wire stripper to take about 3/8-inch of insulation off the ends of each lead, exposing the bare wire strands. Spring clips have a clip with a hole behind it that you push into the speaker then push down a clip to secure them in place. The way the loudspeakers perform depends first and foremost on the resistance of the speaker cables. It's important to pick up some UL-rated speaker wire labeled CL2 or CL3 if you need to run wire inside your walls.

A high-performance PVC OFC Speaker cable that combines flexibility at optimum performance levels through highly stranded OFC (oxygen-free copper) conductors. this is the goal of value-added services, which help to sculpt cables according to your needs, identify and protect them.Speaker cable is the last line in the chain before the sound is produced, therefore it is essential the whole signal is transferred intact as you cannot recover it later. Our own Crutchfield-branded banana plugs are an excellent value and make connecting your speakers a breeze. If the connectors and amplifiers of the stereo system are of high quality, the resistance will be small, leaving the final quality of sound to be determined based on the impedance and resistance of the speaker wire. The wires are too short to connect to my receiver, so I've had to use standard electrical butt splice connectors with 5ft of speaker wire to extend the wires.