Monoprice Speaker Wire Quality - Page 2

Oh there you go again, pushing your bougoise morality on the bass response. Just because it went home with the quad 18" woofers and not you, does not make it "loose".

I bought a spool of their cable, and a bunch of their gold banana plugs. The cable is fine and the plugs are beautiful, but they come loose easily. Anybody else find this? Any solutions?

Loctite® Threadlocker®

monoprice would be good if they were in china. the fact they are in the u.s. and their quality/prices are what they are is borderline ridiculous.

Oh my..


/phew!


Me too! I was so ready to start posting and then I was like...wait..

Loctite isn't electrically conductive, and doesn't threadlocker need heat to release? Not a good idea IMO.

Find a set of locking banana plugs if you have your heart set on using them. I know that mine came from cobalt (you can't find them without searching their site, they are missing from the accessories page) and they work great. You adjust the tightness by twisting the base. No loose plugs ever!

I find personal insults about religion, race and politics usually work better for threadlocking.

Thats what I did except I used the 4 conductor 12 gauge.....

worked out well because my speakers were designed to be bi-wired....

Sean

Don't it makes difference in this application, imo, and it can release without heat.


After re-reading the op, I thought he/she was referring to the tightening screw coming loose, but now realize he/she may have been referring to the plug end coming loose. In which case, he/she can open up the leaves a bit on the plug end, or get some locking plugs.

I use all MonoPrice 12AWG. I was told that there is a noticeable difference using a Audioquest cable. I don't no my wallet is to small, and maybe my ears are not that good. The MonoPrice works for me.

John

Who told you this? An Audioquest dealer??


I have been happy with my Monoprice 12AWG cable as well.

I recently changed out all my speaker wire with in-wall rated 12 gauge wire from monoprice. When I ran wire the first time I didn't know it needed to be specially rated to be in-wall. Anyway, it's top notch quality speaker wire IMO.

Is their wire made in the USA? If so I am definitely ordering from them. Thanks.

I actually have a few lengths of Audioquest and did not notice any difference when running Monoprice 12 awg in between it and the receiver. My speakers are high resolution, so.....

By the way, I used heat shrink tubing to secure the monoprice bananas. Someone mentioned they were slipping earlier in the thread.

No..

I am not sure why either.. It is not a terminated product so the labor cost is minimal.

A couple of weeks ago I replaced all my wiring and interconnects with MP stuff. I use the 14 or 12 gauge wire (can't remember), but stripped it out of the white protective housing. It now looks like expensive twisted black and red wire.

EDIT: It replaced some rather expensive Tributaries wire, and there's no audible difference (not that I was expecting there to be....just wanted to buy some new stuff).

That's what I use - except use them for bi-amping. Great stuff.... SJ

I have a question about the 4 conductor cable. My speaker has 4 connectors but my amp only has one. Can you just leave the two extra connectors on the amp end out or do you put them both in on the single connector?

I assume your speakers are setup for bi-wiring/bi-amping. Look and see if the two sets of speaker terminals are shorted together, There should be a wire or plate connecting the two blacks together and two reds together. If the sets are shorted, you only need to connect to one set and all will be good.

I'm not sure what you mean by a single connector to the receiver. Most will have a red and black connector for each channel. Red is positive, black is negative. You connect the red from the receiver to red on the speaker. And black to black also.

If you only use 2 of the 4 connectors, you should be fine. You'll just have 2 unused wires.

I agree with others that say just use 12AWG if its not a hassle for you. But FWIW I changed from 16AWG to 12AWG and noticed no difference, other than the wire being harder to bend

They are not shorted together. My current cables are a set of Better Cable wires that have 4 spade connections on the speaker side and two spade connections on the amp side. What I meant by single connector on the amp side was a single pair as opposed to the two pairs on the speaker side.

So, since they are not shorted together on the speaker side what do I do?

Also, should I get the cables terminated with spades again or is using the "raw" cable just as good?

Thanks!

I bought a 300' Spool of 12 AWG, $84 and it cost less than one short cable of overpriced Monster at Best Buy.

Raw wire just as good.
In a four wire cable the wires will either be paired or there will be four different colors.
take two wires and connect them to the red terminal on that AVR, connect one of those wires to the bottom red terminal on the speaker and the other wire to the top red terminal on the speaker.
Repeat the process for the other two wires substituting black for red.

These wires have different colors (red, white, black, green). So, I would do the following:

Speaker +1 : Black
Speaker +2 : Green
Speaker -1 : Red
Speaker -2 : White

Amp +1 : Black + Green
Amp -1 : Red + White

Correct?

Yes, that is correct.

Also if the speakers are very far from the AVR, I would write that on two pieces of tape and put one on each end of the wire.
If it ever has to be disconnected the label will be handy.

^^^

VERY good idea...

don't ask me how i know...

just found this thread as I am gathering info on good in wall speaker wire (thinking monoprice or bluejeans 12awg) and saw the bi-wire question. I am currently running a bi-wire setup but only via a piece of speaker wire from the bottom red/black to the top r/b respectively. All supported my an amp. Question, is anyone doing it this way or are the wires coming directly from the amp?

I use orange county banana plugs too if any is interested and I think they work good.

 

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