Silverback Speaker Wire by Sewell, 12 AWG, with Silverback Banana Plugs, OFC, 259 Strand Count, 3 ft

Firstly, yes there is a smell when first using these cables. I am assuming the manufacturer of the outer cable is using a phthalate free plasticiser in their PVC compound. Anyway the good news is the odour does diminish over a day or so.The quality of the cable and plugs is good quality at this price point. A few people don't understand that Banana plug outer sleeves are designed to be tightened by fingers therefore they may arrive a little loose.As far as sound goes I was very sceptical that simply having a higher strand count would make any noticeable difference to my Dali Zensor 5 setup. I was wrong, the change in sound was easily noticed especially in the tricky sibilant frequency which I found overly harsh on some tracks previously. Just by changing the cables the sibilance has been halved to a now acceptable level. The midst seem more forward but I'm pretty sure the bass has become reduced a little, or maybe it's just tighter. Also the bass seems to be able to dip a little lower which is great. Will be hitting the volume hard when the neighbours go out and will add to the review if my findings change any.

I am really impressed with the quality and sound of this cable - only needed one as it was to feed some Bluetooth speakers but the sound improvement was immediate....highly recommended, and a complete bargain at the price!

Good value and well made cables, the customer services were very helpful when I had cable query, I will be reordering a longer set of cables. .

Not the head line most would expect about speaker cable but its so true once out of the pack these sunk out my room for a week or two but once beyond the smell you see these are great cables nice thick copper wire plus the banana plugs that they use grab the binging post like its life depends on it i was using this on my yamaha amp with svs ultra bookshelf speakers and i was completely happy with the performance from them.

These little bad boys took my Monitor Audio BX2 speakers to another level. I already thought they were great. I am now in shock as to how food they sound.If you have half decent speakers. Give yourself and your speakers a big treat for a small price.

Serving my well so far, great quality cable and connectors. Pleased with my purchase, double pleased with not having to make the cables up.

I really wanted to replace my old speaker wires, which were the standard copper wire style, soldered at each end. I liked the style of these cables but I wasn't sure if banana plugs would fit into both my amp and my speaker terminals, which are drilled posts with screw-down caps that are designed to clamp down on bare copper wire, but most comments on the internet suggested they would be fine. It was a tight fit but yes, luckily the plugs seem to work with systems that were designed with thin copper wires in mind. The cables look professional, too. You do need to be VERY careful that the plugs don't touch each other on these older systems, where the terminal spacing is a bit close. Screw down the terminal caps really hard and angle the plugs away from each other and you should be fine.

Banana plugs too bit to fit in the sockets for my very large speakers, broke one of the speakers trying to fit it in the connector. Three stars as they seem very well made and durable and I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong to be honest - I just assumed they'd turn up and I could plug them straight in.