Philips Spooled Speaker Wire - 100ft - 16 gauge by Philips Peripherals and Accessories
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Digital camera reviews of Philips Spooled Speaker Wire - 100ft - 16 gauge
Digital camera Review: Good Deal
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good deal for speaker wire. Another review has stated incorrectly about the color coding. The wire IS infact coded. you can't tell from the picture but there is a, slightly, toughf to make out white line along one of the lines. It is also 16 gauge(not stated in discription)Digital camera Review: Good inexpensive wire
Summary: 5 Stars
There's not a lot to say about something so simple. This is exactly what you'd expect to get at under $0.17 a foot for a small roll: flexible 16-ga speaker wire with a good casing (but not in-wall rated). The wire is a little more flexible than I'd expected (a good thing) but still has a tough casing. I find it perfect for making up monitor leads for temporary configurations instead of hauling around and curling up the excess of my "good" wire I use in my permanent configuration at home. At the time of this review the same wire costs 50% more (before tax) at a well-known national electronics chain.Digital camera Review: Good stuff.
Summary: 5 Stars
It's speaker wire, what else needs to be said? Well, there's speaker wire, then there's serious cable, and this falls in the latter category. 14 gauge stranded copper -- if you can't visualize that, think "lamp cord", only higher quality. You probably have appliances with power cords thinner than this stuff.
Cut it, tin the ends, and you have a nice, solid speaker cable that should outlast the rest of your system. I don't know what kind of loads 14 gauge is rated for, but I sure don't have enough power to cause any problems. If you have other uses in mind, it wicks up solder very nicely and is very easy to work with. The insulation will burn like any other, but it's not too excessive if you are halfway decent at soldering.
Just taking it out of the box, I knew I had some quality cable when I dropped it from the unexpected weight. It reminded me most of the solid copper heatsink from my now dead Athlon machine. This cable is well worth the money.
Digital camera Review: Good wire for a good price
Summary: 5 Stars
I believe this is good speaker wire for the price. In fact I am buying more...Digital camera Review: Good wire, bad marking
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought 5 spools of this wire in 3 separate purchases, so obviously I think it's worth the cost. The wire is braided and both are copper (as noted in other reviews here).
My main complaint is that the markings that should show which line is which (the white stripe that should go along one of sheaths) is either very hard to see, or non-existant. 4/5 of mine had a very light white line, the other one had no marking whatsoever.
Yeah, seemed weird to me too.
A suggestion: If you're running several of these lines alongside one another (in a conduit/wall/raceway etc), look into buying some IDEAL Yellow 77 Plus Wire Pulling Lubricant - Wire pulling lubricant. It makes things go a _whole_ lot smoother. (Pun intended. ;))
In all, very happy with this wire.