Accell B031B-100H 16-Gauge UltraAudio Speaker Cable (100 Feet/30 Meters)
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List Price: $49.99 Our Price: $37.56 You Save: $12.43 (24.9%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours (as of 11:07 PM CT - detail)
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- High-purity 99.99% copper conductor
- UltraFlex soft jacket for easy routing and excellent cable protection
- 16 AWG contruction
- High strand count provides outstanding signal transfer
Product Description
99.99% pure copper cable resists corrosion and delivers improved dynamics and unrestricted high frequency response. UltraFlex® jacket makes cable routing easy and provides excellent cable protection. Construction provides extremely low signal loss and a smooth and tight audio signal. Specially wound high-purity conductor transfers audio signals more efficiently. 100' 16-gauge.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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This is quality cable, and at this price, it really can't be beat. Like another review mentioned, the only real issue with this wire is that the hot wire isn't clearly marked, except for a white Accell logo (which is hard to distinguish on a shiny copper red background printed on translucent casing)
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Summary:
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REAL 16-gauge Speaker Cable
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This stuff is actually 16-gauge wire! Heavy duty, great for longer runs of cable without reducing audio quality, easy to use of a spool, easy to differentiate between sides (positive and negative) with the brand written on one side and a blank second side. Well worth the extra money, but I still got it for under $50!
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highly recommend to supply the signal to your home theater speakers ,disreguard those cheep wire they offer spend a little extra do it right the first time you wont be disappoionted...
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Accell speaker wire is a great wire at a really good price. As soon as I opened the shipping package, I was impressed. The clear insulation is ample. The wire itself is made up of many fine strands that are woven into bigger strands, which in turn are woven to create the final 16-gauge wire.
Be assured that this is not inferior wire--something originally meant to be used as lamp cord--relabeled to take advantage of the booming home theater business. It was obviously manufactured to be high-quality speaker wire (at a reasonable price).
Before buying any speaker wire in bulk here at Amazon, check the weight (always given on the product page, just above the shipping weight). This wire outweighs other so-called "16 Gauge Wire" by nearly two to one, being reminiscent of Monster Cable speaker wire that costs a lot more.
Several vendors sell this wire here on Amazon at a variety of prices. You should pay less than $.20 a foot, including shipping. The best price I've seen so far here at Amazon is about $.16 per foot, including shipping (when bought in a 250 foot roll).
I am currently rewiring two home theater systems (one 5.1 and one 7.1) using only Accell wire. I feel it's quite unlikely that I would find a better 16-gauge wire even at twice the price (I've looked).
Remember that high-quality cords and cables are important to bring out the best in your audio/video system; but never, NEVER, judge quality by price. Consider, too, that ordinary lamp cord of sufficient gauge will give you probably at least 97% of what your system has to offer. You can obtain maybe another 1% by shopping wisely for better wire. Or you can spend a fortune (and a lifetime) trying to find the Holy Grail of that extra 2 or 3 percent.
Here's the deal: No matter how good your amplifier, speakers and cables may be, they will never sound any better than your source material. If you plug an old gramophone into a million-dollar sound reproduction system, you will still be hearing only the capabilities of the gramophone. You might be able to play it really loud, but the sound will never approach high-fidelity because the recording itself is not even close to being high-fidelity.
The sad truth is that even CDs produce pretty crappy sound.
We have finally entered an era where we can reproduce music nearly as it was recorded, using blu-ray players and discs that can regenerate and transfer lossless sound.
If you're looking for the best sound your money can buy, you'll be better off spending your $$$ for a good blu-ray player and buying (or renting) the highest quality discs, both video and audio. Play your music through a modest amplifier with nice speakers and you'll be happy from the start.
You can always upgrade your system later with a more powerful amp and better speakers; but, even then, this is the only speaker wire you will ever need.
*edit* I have installed and used this wire now. Working with it is a pleasure. It strips easily and is flexible. It doesn't kink; and it sounds great. The wire, once stripped, behaves well (doesn't fray or spread), so that tinning is not necessary. It crimps nicely, too, if you're using banana or pin terminals.
The only caveat I have: It is REALLY difficult to distinguish the hot from the cold. You have to have good eyes and good light to see the ACCELL information printed (in white) on the hot side of the wire. Still, I would not allow that to deter me from buying this wire again.
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