Customer Reviews

Monster Standard THX-Certified Speaker Cable - 50 ft. 16ga. Speaker Cable

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I picked this up from my local electronics store (because I didn't want to wait for shipping). 30ft spool covered my center channel and bi-amp'ed mains, and 50 ft easily wired my surrounds. Never hurts to get extra, too.

Pros:
-It's very reasonably priced, for "name-brand" cables.
-It's "THX" certified (not sure that it really matters for speaker wire?!)
-I was able to tell the difference between "red" and "black" (the labeling is consistently on only one wire).

Cons:
-It was surprisingly tough for me to strip & crimp the wires (tip: try setting strippers for 14ga. wires)
-It's not very easy to tell "red wire" vs "black wire"
-It probably costs extra for the THX name

Neutral:
-The wires claim to be directional (I realized after I "mis-routed" one surround) - but they're wires. They work whatever way you tell them to.

All that being said, they are just regular, generic speaker wires. Not the fanciest, but nothing really bad about them, either.

These look very good quality for the price. It's Monster after all! I was using Sony supplied thinner wires (must be more than 20 gauge!) for about two weeks before these arrived. Sound quality didn't improved so dramatically - may be I don't have an audiophile ear or may be my Sonys are not that good of the speakers. But still I am very very happy with the purchase. These wires are much thicker and looks cool!

One thing though: these wires are half copper and half aluminum (or silver?) coated.

You cannot go wrong with this stuff. I have wired my whole house with it and it has worked great !

This bring out all the resolution in the music and the THX certification is well worth over other brands of cable.

highly recomended for all home theaters