I was having issues with one of my vintage Technics stereo receivers and was hearing a bit of scratchiness coming from one speaker. Since my speaker wires were in sad shape, I opted to get some new speaker wire from Amazon. I chose a 50-foot spool of AmazonBasics 16 gauge speaker wire. If you really want to go to town a 100-foot spool is also available.
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| AmazonBasics 16 gauge Speaker Wire |
My Amazon Ordering Experience
I hadn't ordered speaker wire from Amazon before. However, since I didn't want to trek over to Best Buy or Walmart, I figured that I would give it a shot. Since we have an Amazon Prime membership, I thought I would get free shipping. I did. I got amazingly fast free shipping. I placed my order on the evening of February 22nd and I it was delivered on February 24th.
Amazon Speaker Wire Installation
The 16 gauge speaker wire was a little thicker than the wire I was replacing. Even though one of the two wires has a white stripe in the case, I found it somewhat difficult to distinguish between which was the red wire and which was the white. However, I have that trouble with almost all speaker wires. Since I was only using a short length of wire for each speaker, I managed. The wires fit into the back of my receiver without any issue and I confirmed that the receiver had an issue. Fortunately, I still had my
Technics SA-160 on hand. So, I simply switched out to this more compact receiver. I still had no problem attaching my new speaker wires to it.
Amazon Speaker Wire Performance
When it comes to speaker wires and other stereo wiring, there is a lot of hocus pocus in the audiophile world. AmazonBasics products are just basic electronics commodity products and no astounding claims are made. As far as my ears can tell, my JBL Northridge speakers sound just fine with the 16 gauge AmazonBasics speaker wire installed.
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