InstallGear 14 Gauge Speaker Wire Cable (500ft), 14 AWG Speaker Wire Cable, True Spec Soft Touch Cables - Use for Car Speakers Stereos, Home Theater Speakers, Surround Sound, Radio Wiring

Sorry it took so long but great price fast shipping

Not bad for the price point.. heavy insulation. Little difficult routing in a harness but works well

This wire is great good quality and my system sounds really good I wired all my speakers off the deck with this wire and used it for the subs

This speaker cable works just fine. I like the different colors making polarity easy. Works great with banana plugs or bare. Flexible. The one con is every time I cut them, I get several loose single strands come out that I have the find and throw away.

Speaker wire gauge I needed for subwoofer box. More than enough length than I need. Handles the power I’m putting to it. Spool has a good weight to it also you know, for throwing.

UPDATE 5/3/18: Purchased a 2nd 100" roll. Great speaker wire. Original Review: Although it's typical to use 16 and 18 gauge speaker wire to hook up your speakers you really should use a heavier gauge. The heavier gauge helps to reduce losses on long runs and helps to ensure low-frequency damping which can affect bass performance. Of course, it's sometimes of a mystery exactly what size wire gauge you should use. If the manufacturer of the amp you're using specifies the minimum size gauge based on the length of the run then you're home free usually. Unfortunately most manufacturers leave out such information. It is possible to get copper wire as thick as 4 gauge, but unless you're powering a Tesla Coil I'd stay clear of it unless you're prepared to call in your local utility company to run it for you. In general, a 14 gauge size speaker wire is a good size to use for runs of 50 feet or less. Yes, you can use 14 gauge for longer runs if you want, but I'd suggest 12 gauge for runs over 50 feet. Typical 14 gauge speaker wire is rather thickly insulated and somewhat stiff to work with. And too often such wire is not marked with any polarity stripe to keep the positive and negative the same at both ends of the run when you hook up the speaker and amp. Sometimes, the insulation for one conductor will have a white stripe, but not always, or each bundle of the pair of wires will have a silver and gold coating to make it easier to see and use for the positive and negative connections. But in dimly lighted areas tinted wire still can be difficult to see. The installGear 14 Gauge solves both problems by being flexible, making it very easy to work with, and it's insulation is clearly color-coded so that you'll be certain to properly wire the positive and negative terminals at both the speakers and the amplifier. You really can't go wrong with this wire for speakers. TRistate, the vendo, got my order out to me in excellent time.6/1/18 - Bought another 200 feet worth. It would be nice if this speaker wire came in moe than 100 feet rolls.

I used this for running my stereo to my speakers in my living room. I had thinner less flexible wire before, and my dog snapped it off trying to retrieve a ball under the TV stand. This wire was heavier gauge (better sound) and so nice and flexible to run around the wall edges. That rubberized coating was really appreciated when I needed to strip it back to get to the wire to connect everything up. I will never use that thin speaker wire again.

Did not yet use. Keeping it for future use. 14AWG wire is excellent for moderate to longer runs of wire for high quality sound reproduction especially with 'vintage' stereo components from the 1970's like Pioneer, Kenwood , Marantz receivers and integrated amplifiers connecting to good quality two way and three way speaker systems. I am currently using 16 AWG wire (one diameter smaller) for my Pioneer SA- 9500-2 integrated amplifier rated @ 80 watts per channel RMS continuous power output from 20hz-20,000 hz into 8 ohms with 0.05 % THD ( Total Harmonic Distortion) using 4 Technics 3 way speaker systems with bass ported 12" woofers. (hz=hertz same as cps= cycles per second) : how many vibrations a particular tone or frequency makes in one second from positive to negative creating the sound you hear and enjoy. My stereo system is vintage 1977 and works perfectly. It is well made. Try finding that today! Heavier wire means less resistance resulting in less power being wasted in friction producing heat allowing for more efficient power transfer used for reproducing the music rather than being wasted away in extra resistance producing friction that generates heat. 14AWG & 16 AWG wire is good for most applications where distance is moderate between speakers and amplifiers or receivers. Receivers are amplifiers containing an AM-FM tuner on the same chassis. Integrated amplifiers contain a Preamplifier for turntables that use magnetic phonograph cartridges in the tonearm and a separate power amplifier on the same chassis then relying on a separate AM-FM tuner connected to it for radio broadcasts. Receivers combine all three units together on one chassis. Technically separating them out into separate units is theoretically better as each unit can concentrate on what it was designed to do. I prefer separate integrated amplifier and AM-FM tuner combos over one unit receivers. But practically speaking there is no degradation or detectable difference in sound quality. Both arraangements work well.