Philips Spooled Speaker Wire - 100ft - 16 gauge
by Philips Peripherals and Accessories
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Customer 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.Customer Review: No color coding
Summary: 3 Stars
While there are some reviewers who could make out some sort of line indicating the difference between the ground and hot wires I sure couldn't. Thinking that perhaps I was getting too long in the tooth and starting to suffer from eye failure, I called several friends. We looked and looked and looked under several different lights and could not find any difference between the two wires. So, while this does the trick sound wise, you get what you pay for. It was a huge pain to have to track and mark almost 100 feet of wire using a black magic marker.Customer Review: Don't get ripped off by marketing tactics. This is great wire!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is decent quality 16 gauge speaker wire. It works fine for all but the highest end systems. It is so sad that companies like Monster Cable have everyone fooled into thinking you need to buy special wire to hook up speakers. 99.999% of people can't tell the difference in sound quality with most speakers, and you probably won't either. use that extra $100 and buy a better receiver or speakers if you have money to burn. That is where the real sound quality is anyway.Customer Review: 100' phillips spooled speaker wire
Summary: 3 Stars
This wire seems robust and produces much better sound than the spaghetti-speaker wire supplied with my HTIB. However, I have marked this product down because the separate wires aren't color coded!! This makes setting up a pain in the proverbial, because you have to mark at frequent intervals along the wire with a permanent marker (well that is what we did) to keep track of which wire is which. Apart from that, seems like a nice product.Customer Review: hard to distinguish the 2 strands
Summary: 3 Stars
They strip easily and the sound quality is fine. My only gripe is it's very hard to distinguish between the two strands. There's a very faint white line on one of the strands. The surface is very reflective and the it's hard to seperate the white line from a light reflection. The manufacturer should put a black line on one of the strands or use different colored wire or insulation like other manufacturers.