KabelDirekt AWG 16 Speaker Wire for Audiophiles and HiFi Systems - 16 Gauge Audio Wire, Speaker Cable, Oxygen-Free, 99.9% Purity Copper Wiring and Polarity Markings - 50 feet

My main motivation for getting this cable was the speaker manufacturer for my new front LCRs recommended 16 AWG for all short runs. I only had 18 AWG, and this wasn't expensive, so why not? Despite a handful of reviews mentioning the plastic getting stripped off when pulling apart the two cables, I didn't encounter that at all. I was able to separate the cables without any issue of the plastic insulation ripping. The first thing I noticed about the wire was that it didn't actually appear wider than my 18 AWG cable. That aside, one thing that was noticeably better was that each individual strand was significantly larger than in my previous cable, and in spite of that, the cable is still plenty flexible. I found this to be important in a good way because I've had issues with many individual strands breaking off, particularly when stripping the wire or attaching banana plugs. Did not encounter that issue at all with this cable and its meaty strands. After setting up one of my speakers with the new wire, I was curious to see if it would sound any different. After playing some music in Mono mode, I found that the low end mid range came across a bit deeper and richer than the speakers connected with my older 18 AWG cable. The highs were basically the same, but an obvious improvement at the lower end. I even asked my wife to do a blind test (she didn't know which speaker I connected), and she also picked the one with this wire as the best sounding one. All and all, this is a great copper speaker wire to get, particularly at its price. If you need new speaker wire and don't need CCA, just get this and be done with it. You'll be happy.

Great product

This is a decent speaker cable with good real ofc copper 16 gauge! I used this 16awg ofc to splice in a second subwoofer to my Samsung Q990C soundbar as well has add external side surround and front and rear Atmos speakers! Overall good quality for the price, but the one thing I don’t like is how stiff the cable is. The pvc around the copper is thick but the strands are also thicker which makes the wire harder to bend. Only an issue is trying to run the wire in Certain scenarios. Side note, after getting this wire 50ft 16awg, I bought the Amazon basics 14awg inwall speaker wire in white 100ft for about $5 more. The flexibility of both wires (excluding the hard white outer shell) have about the same flexibility. I think I’ll have to spend more $$ if I want a truly flexible speaker wire.

As warranted. Easy to use.

This is very good speaker wire. The 16 AWG seems to be well suited to most speaker A framer’s nd an dGodc need byqds build needs and DYt wi7n, seqkee