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Usually I stick with known professional wire manufacturers (Belden, Canare, Mogami, Klotz, Van Damme, Van den Hul, and Gotham are my basic go-to’s), but I am relocating all my speakers to the opposite side of the room as my equipment and will need long speaker cable runs. So, given the cost involved, I decided to try something new, or new to me at least: Amazon Basics speaker cable.
I purchased a 200 foot spool of Amazon Basics 12 gauge speaker cable. The price was about $80. Keep in mind that 200 feet of two 12 gauge conductors is a heck of a lot of copper. Pretty high quality copper, too, at 99.9% oxygen free. Now, there is basically zero labor cost to making these since insulated wire is all machine-made, but I still can’t see how Amazon is making money off these.
Anyway, I am using it for three 30 foot runs to my front speakers and four 20 foot runs to my surround speakers, so I figured with the lengths involved that 12 gauge was the way to go.
I am not expecting any effect on sound quality whatsoever, but I will post my subjective impressions here once I am done with the project.
Here’s a stock photo of the fancy packaging;
I purchased a 200 foot spool of Amazon Basics 12 gauge speaker cable. The price was about $80. Keep in mind that 200 feet of two 12 gauge conductors is a heck of a lot of copper. Pretty high quality copper, too, at 99.9% oxygen free. Now, there is basically zero labor cost to making these since insulated wire is all machine-made, but I still can’t see how Amazon is making money off these.
Anyway, I am using it for three 30 foot runs to my front speakers and four 20 foot runs to my surround speakers, so I figured with the lengths involved that 12 gauge was the way to go.
I am not expecting any effect on sound quality whatsoever, but I will post my subjective impressions here once I am done with the project.
Here’s a stock photo of the fancy packaging;
