Monoprice 103844 250ft 12AWG CL2 Rated 2-Conductor Loud Speaker Cable (for In-Wall Installation), White

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  • Johnny D.

    > 3 day

    Very nice product! Has marking at every foot in length which helped with installation. High grade copper wire.

  • Anna

    > 3 day

    Good

  • Happy FL Girl

    Greater than one week

    Great value! This wiring is better quality than what came out of my little micro speakers. Ha ha. I wanted EXCELLENT wiring so no one has to climb back in my attic again. Excellent sound quality.

  • Tee

    > 3 day

    This is really very high quality and I am very happy I got it. The wire was marked in feet so it makes it really easy to cut exactly where you want. The price was right! I really love it.

  • John S.

    > 3 day

    At the time that I bought this 250 spool of 12AWG oxygen-free copper (not copper-clad aluminum) wire a year or 2 ago, it was the absolute best price I could find. As a matter of fact, I believe it was cheaper than other brands 14AWG OFC wire anywhere else. So the value is great. As for the wire gauge being true to size, I believe it is, or extremely close to it. Ive bought wire from multiple sellers/brands in the past, and a lot of times they advertise their wire one or two AWG sizes larger than it truely is. Due to that, I needed 14AWG wire but ordered 12AWG to make up for any upscaled false advertising. Regardless, this wire ended up being pretty true to size or very close to it. I used this to connect 4 big custom speaker enclosures that I hung in the upper corners of our 3-stall garage/shop. I still have some left that I occasionally use for automotive purposes, and I usually cut/pull the white loom/sheathing off first. However if you do remove that white sheathing, I dont recommend using it in a place that will either rub other objects that could wear through the insulation from vibration or movement, or melt through from heat. The wires have a thinner, cheaper insulation. I also dont really recommend using it in outdoor areas, and that includes on vehicles in engine bays or exteriors, because it wouldnt be as protective against the outside elements. The copper will likely oxidize much sooner in those applications. For indoor speaker wiring applications, its great.

  • michael mazzara

    Greater than one week

    very good wire, I used it too make my own cables, looks very nice! and lays well.

  • Brew Time

    > 3 day

    Great quality speaker cable for the price.

  • Harrison Jenkins

    Greater than one week

    Bought this to wire up a new home theater room in my house. I was running through walls so was looking for some sort of jacketed in wall cable. This fit the bill and was at a price (<$0.50/ft) that was tough to beat. The cable easily pulled through walls and small holes (as small as 5/16 dia in places where I wanted to be discreet). I read some reviews that said it is too stiff or difficult to install to wall plates; that was not my experience. I found it to be only slightly more stiff than non-jacketed speaker wire and as i said the jacket made it easily slide through the walls. I also attached the ends to Monoprice Banana Binding Post wall plates and found it to be plenty flexible for that purpose. The only odd thing I will note is that the black conductor is more difficult to strip than the red....odd, but still not a big deal. Would definitely buy again!

  • Total Geek

    Greater than one week

    I under bought for my project, and I initially purchased the media bridge version. After seeing 250ft roll for just $30 more than what I paid for 100ft of the other brand, I kicked myself, then bought the larger roll. Having used both brands, Id recommend buying whichever one you can get a better deal on at the time. Between the media bridge and monoprice version of the 12AWG in-wall cable and I give the monoprice a slight advantage just based on price. After working with the two cables, they seem identical. The monoprice conductors may be marginally easier to strip, but I honestly think these two are made in the same factory and just have different names stamped on them. Id recommend buying whichever one you can get a better deal on at the time.

  • scruffee

    > 3 day

    This is stuff is awesome! Im having a house built now with distributed audio in several locations. The builder has a guy he uses, and while he does good work...he uses CHEAP wire. I didnt want that crap in my walls. I upgraded all the wire...I should have just bought the 500ft spool to begin with.... BUY THIS STUFF! You wont regret it! Great wire!

Get the most out of your home audio system with high quality, oxygen-free, pure bare copper speaker wire from monoprice!

this speaker wire features two conductors made of high purity (greater than 99.95% pure), oxygen-free bare copper. Pure bare copper is a superior conductor to the copper clad aluminum (CCA) conductors used in most other inexpensive speaker wire. Cca is only about 68% as conductive as pure bare copper. This additional resistance is added to the impedance of your speakers and can negatively effect The sound.

for the wire to have no audible effect, The total wire resistance should be no more than 5% of the lowest impedance of your speakers. Even speakers rated for a nominal 8-ohms, may dip to as low as 4-ohms at some frequencies, which further reduces the total cable resistance allowed in the wire. Using pure bare copper speaker wire ensures that the total load put on the amplifier remains as close as possible to the impedance curve of your speakers.

for example, a 16AWG 2-conductor pure bare copper speaker wire has a total resistance of 0.803 ohms per 100 feet (both directions must be considered). by comparison, a 16AWG 2-conductor CCA speaker wire has a total resistance of 1.181 ohms per 100 feet. Assuming 4 ohms is the lowest impedance of your speakers, a speaker wire run can be no more 0.2-Ohms total. 20 feet of 16AWG pure bare copper would be 0.1606 ohms, well under the 0.2-Ohm limit. On the other hand, 20 feet of 16AWG CCA would be 0.2362 ohms, well over the 0.2-Ohm limit.

each conductor is jacketed with color-coded PVC for easy polarity identification. The entire cable assembly is jacketed in a white, CL2-rated PVC material. The CL2 rating indicates that the cable complies with fire safety and insurance requirements, making it safe for use inside the walls of residential class buildings.

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