• Reviews around copper (4.52 of 5)

    Monoprice 100ft 12AWG Enhanced Loud Oxygen-Free Copper Speaker Wire Cable

    • Absolutely pure copper wire
    • Well, it does not look like the picture shown here where both wires has the color of pure copper
    • If you use the cheaper copper coated aluminium (CCA) wire, make sure to go up one gauge as copper coated aluminium has worst resistance than pure copper wire.
    • Look at this stuff, I'm surprised the copper isn't worth more than the asking price
    • Copper is getting like gold these days and pure copper could just be a myth
    • Great quality solid copper wires
    • I'm not sure what the significance of oxygen free copper is, but the expensive cables tend to use it
    • For most people the cheaper copper clad will probably do since the sound difference is almost (ALMOST) impossible to hear.
    • They appear to be copper as well and I can say that I did not notice a difference at all in sound quality moving from the thicker 8AWG cables to the thinner Monoprice 12AWG cables
    • It is solid copper with a hefty, flexible jacket and a bold, blue line to mark positive
    • True 16 gauge pure copper cable
    • It is exactly 12 guage and all pure copper
    • I don't have a way to measure if the gauge is accurate, but the copper is thick and is a much larger than my 14AWG, so it works for me.
    • They claim a cross section of 3.0 mm square, which is the proper value for solid copper AWG 12, but their defense must be they are including the air between the strands in the measurement.
    • This is the real deal - pure copper
    • Since this is pure copper and not that worthless CCA junk, it'll work perfectly
    • Well this isn't the cheap copper clad aluminum stuff
    • Any audiophile will tell you that oxygen-free copper gives you much better performance.
    • a very good speaker wire that is pure copper instead of copper coated aluminum wire
    • "Conduit: High Purity, Oxygen-free Copper"
    • Good high quality copper wire
    • I purchased this on recommendation of my electrical wizard friend: the oxygen free copper is apparently the best for audio across distances and for the price I could afford to try it
    • Not only is this a great brand, but copper are hard to find now days and usually a lot more expensive
    • Pure copper, no
    • This wire is advertised as "Greater than 99.95% pure, oxygen-free copper conductors" - FALSE!!!
    • Under their standards this is considered 100% OFC (Oxygen Free Copper).
    • Do recall that copper oxidizes on the surface just like a penny (not the WW2 steel ones) and when cut or scraped like one would do prior to tinning to insert into speaker terminals it will be a brighter but still copper color
    • Good basic Oxygen Free Copper wire @ a fair price.
    • Strands appear to be solid copper
    • Not sure about the "enhanced loud" stuff but oxygen-free copper at this thickness and this price is fantastic
    • The one I received, has one wire of the copper color but the other wire is silver color indicating that it is NOT oxigen free copper.
    • Solid copper wire, lays flat with no twisting, supple to work with
    • Excellent oxygen free copper wire
    • A great deal for true 12awg, high-quality oxygen-free copper speaker wire.
    • This is a top quality product that appears to be pure copper with fine strands, excellent insulation, and my roll was within inches of being the stated 100 feet
    • It is incredibly simple to test for CCA wire versus oxygen free copper
    • but it wont be OFC (oxygen-free copper
    • Best affordable cable, compared to many othersthis is the best , pure copper wire 👍
    • This wire is advertised as "Greater than 99.95% pure, oxygen-free copper conductors" - FALSE!!!
    • Don't settle for copper coated, get pure copper
    • Seems to be good quality copper
    • The reason I say "appears to be pure copper" is because I haven't done any tests on it; but I can see from using it, tinning it, scraping it that it is not CCA (copper coated aluminum).Maybe the people giving poor reviews bought theirs from a different vendor
    • pure copper cable, easy to strip
    • It's pure copper, which means that it won't corrode, but it's about as cheap as you could otherwise find
    • but these are pure copper and produce excellent sound
    • It doesn't matter who makes the wire as long as it's pure copper
    • The halves are easy to separate at least, and there's clearly a lot of good pure copper
    • Despite the thick jacket, the copper is actually easy to handle, and it's not that painful to re-straighten them by hand if you're trying to "thread a needle," so to speak, and bend some threads on accident
    • Pure heavy copper
    • As advertised it's made of pure copper, I wish I ordered more and gotten 16 gauge
    • This is very good wire, the wire jacket is flexible and the wire is fine copper strands
    • Solid copper with identifying marks on one conductor to show polarity.
    • This is good quality copper wire.
    • She came back with a 99.85% pure copper.
    • I ordered this product because it was a good price (too good) for pure copper wire
    • The Monoprice 50ft 14AWG Oxygen-Free Copper Speaker wire delivers exactly what its namesake says
    • Just shiny, pure copper!
    • Oxygen free wire is pure copper and is the best conductor for the price.
    • That being the case, why do I see several reviews stating it is pure copper
    • This was the best Quality (!00% oxygen free copper) at the best price.
    • Amazon's product page states it is "Greater than 99.95% pure, oxygen-free copper conductors", but it seems more realistic to say that it is 99.95% aluminum and 0.05% copper (a micron-thin copper
    • Not a cheap copper coated aluminum but real nice thick copper cable.
    • Copper is getting like gold these days and pure copper could just be a myth
    • Super thick insulation, hard to get off, but the wire itself is nice quality copper, none of that CCA stuff, and is definitely 12 gauge
    • If you use the cheaper copper coated aluminium (CCA) wire, make sure to go up one gauge as copper coated aluminium has worst resistance than pure copper wire.
    • If you're an audiophile and "must have" your pure copper, buck up
    • This monoprice stuff has enough strands for a good connection without being too brittle, the casing is nice and tick, and the copper stays shiny.
    • This is the real deal, pure copper, and LOTS of strands.
    • Good larger guage oxygen free copper wire that seemed to be well made.
    • This speaker wire is high quality and and PURE copper, not coated aluminum like the cheaper brands
    • Good quality copper wire.
    • This is heavy gauge oxygen free copper stranded wire at a very affordable price.
    • Excellent all copper wire..
    • Excellent cable, as advertised it's pure copper
    • The wire is gauged correctly, is 99% pure copper, and matches up to anything Monster Cable has to offer at a fraction of the price
    • Sure, it seems like pure stranded copper, as it should be at it's price point
    • Pure copper.
    • I purchased this wire because it is pure copper, and not copper coated aluminium.
    • cheapest pure copper cable on Amazon
    • This is not cheap, copper clad aluminum wire, but pure copper
    • Most wire you buy is copper plated aluminum, which has a higher electrical resistance than pure copper
    • Best copper wire for the price.
    • Don't be fooled by cheaper speaker cable that looks like copper but is not made of pure copper
    • Looks pure copper to me (not clad aluminum).
    • Excellent....copper and not CCA
    • Some of the wire is pure copper and some is copper plated aluminum, so it is not as advertised
    • It won't blend in with your living room decor or anything special like that, but it is sufficiently large (gauge size) for almost all speakers in almost all homes and is actually pure copper, not that copper coated aluminum cheapness.
    • Good quality copper cable and probably thicker than I needed, but my outside deck speakers sound great
    • This speaker wire is made of legitimate oxygen free copper, it is very flexible (it takes quite a few turns around my room with the surround sound), the stripping was no problem, and the clear coating is quite attractive
    • great quality copper
    • This cable is genuine oxygen-free copper.
    • Great, true copper, not cheap copper clad
    • very good genuine copper wire 12 awg
    • Sure enough, just like other CCA wire, the copper scraped off and revealed the silvery metal underneath
    • Great, true copper, not cheap copper clad
    • Unfortunately, I've been had--This is not pure oxygen free copper (OFC)
    • I got a 300 ft roll a year ago, hooked 9 speakers plus one of the dubs, actually the left and right speakers was times 2 since I switch 2 pairs, one for music one for movies, it took almost the whole roll, sound is AWESOME, did not need any for the sub I use for home theater, since I use a wireless system for that one, point is, it does not matter if it's not 100% pure copper, if I need more this is what I would buy...
    • It's flexible, color coded and 99.5% copper
    • This stuff has multiple strands of fine copper wire
    • Finally, Monoprice speaker wire has extremely pure copper, and oxygen free copper, which will allow for long term use of this wire
    • This is a fat clump of pure copper wire
    • Pure copper joy!
    • Pure copper joy!
    • This is not cheap, copper clad aluminum wire, but pure copper
    • Oxygen free copper and gauge were lauded as the most important factors to be taken into account when purchasing speaker wire
    • I purchased and tested to make sure it was pure copper and am satisfied
    • cheapest pure copper cable on Amazon
    • AWG and Oxogen Free Copper
    • Good product, pure copper, inexpensive when compared to other 100% copper wires
    • This all pure copper, stranded, speaker wire is of high quality with excellent, thick insulated conductors with a marking on one of the pair to separate the positive from negative conductor
    • Good quality COPPER wire unlike a lot of the copper-clad aluminum wire out there.
    • Mine was solid copper.
    • (upgradefrom flimsy ones supplied with Denon Micro System)From experience, cables appear to be 100% copper, and easy to thread, install
    • after recently upgrading my speakers, i decided to replace my 12 gauge cca speaker wire with the monoprice pure copper.
    • Wroks great with my Klipsch R-62 system