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This stuff is a decent gauge, decent price, and as usual, Amazon's shipping is excellent.I used two rolls of this to hook up 7 speakers for surround sound.As others have noted, it is difficult to see the marking on the one wire, but not a big deal. Not much to say here.
It would have been easier to just choose silver or red, make the connection - find the other end and do the same.Had I known this is what the product was like - I would have never purchased it. Both wires (and the casing they are in) look exactly alike. Usually the wires are recognizable as being two different colors - one is silver and one is red for example. It's the same as if Philips came out with a DVD player. In the case with the Philips Spooled Wire - they have done neither. Who would've thought speaker wire could be difficult to use.
All wire I have seen is in someway marked - so that the user can determine which of the two wires will be used for negative and positive on the speaker end and the receiver/power amp end. There is no way to visually tell them apart.I dealt with it by choosing one wire, peeling back the casing to expose the bare wire, and then meticulously tracing that particular wire to its end - and then marking it. But that's exactly what Philps (practically the inventor of "all things stereo for the home") has done with this product. You may think this is not a big deal - and it isn't if you are running a foot or two of wire - but if you are running 50 plus feet of wire - this becomes an annoyance. and none of the buttons were marked for their functions. I've used all types of speaker wire for many years (for many different applications).
Or sometimes the plastic casing around the wires help the user determine which wire is which - sometimes one has text printed on it.
(Pun intended. 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. I bought 5 spools of this wire in 3 separate purchases, so obviously I think it's worth the cost. ;))In all, very happy with this wire. 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. The wire is braided and both are copper (as noted in other reviews here). 4/5 of mine had a very light white line, the other one had no marking whatsoever.
This speaker wire does not have a marked wire.so you can't tell which is the side you want to make positive or negative when hooking up speakers.sad Will probably throw the wire away can't use it
Earlier critics need to buy some good glasses. The wire is great. A quick comment: Yes, there is a faint white line on one of the wires making it VERY easy to distinguish one from the other to line up the wires.
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