KabelDirekt – Pure Copper Stereo Audio Speaker Wire
KabelDirekt – Pure Copper Stereo Audio Speaker Wire & Cable – Made in Germany – 2x4mm² – 40m – (For Hifi Speakers and Surround Sound Systems, Pure Copper, with polarity markings)
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Pure copperEnjoy a clear audible difference thanks to the pure copper wire strands in each wire – you won’t find lower-quality CCA (copper-clad aluminium) here.
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| Weight: | 3.93 kg |
| Size: | 40m 2x4mm² |
| Dimensions: | 23.1 x 22.5 x 5.5 cm; 3.93 Kilograms |
| Model: | 1314 |
| Part: | 1314 |
| Colour: | Copper |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | KabelDirekt |
| Dimensions: | 23.1 x 22.5 x 5.5 cm; 3.93 Kilograms |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Size: | 40m 2x4mm² |
Works well. Pretty easy to cut and connect. Plenty to work with.
The sheathing is a little harder than I expected, the cable itself solders like a dream and is easy to cut and use.
Actually got these for more length because wife would drop blanket on wire stretching behind sofa, pulling down standing speaker. Thought this would cost less than new speakers and/or stands. Oh, and and wires bunched behind TV didn’t look good (for nearer speakers). But was I surprised at the sound quality difference on all of them. Unexpected but gratefully received! The thinner wires supplied with the surround sound speakers must’ve held back the actual speakers. These fitted (into a Z906) with no problem.
Wow just wow it’s like the cable I used in the old astra back in the day love it many thanks top gear Paul
I must have bought over 100m of this by now in various lengths. It’s good quality which inspires confidence in it’s performance – and while I dont really buy into the ‘expensive cable makes it sound better’ meme this is a happy medium between price and quality.
For the price the cable is good quality, easy to bend and shape round corners, perfect for those long run to rears and Atmos speakers.
bought a roll 2.5 thickness was ideal , good stripping plieres needed or a blade to get thro the insulater sectio
Nice multi core cable.
Expensive but it’s wire, reusable.
Stripping it was easy, it’s good 12ga wire.
Bought to make up my own leads with right-angle 4mm plugs for a restricted space. I already had some expensive speaker cables, but their plugs are unnecessarily long. This cable works well – I can’t hear any difference between my leads and the expensive name brand they have replaced.
The cable is marked as OFC (oxygen free copper) although it does not mention this on the listing, a good gauge which will happily drive my 7.1 system of 4 Walfdale Diamond 9.1s (100W), Diamond CS (120W) and 2 Jamo S626s (130W) all at 6 Ohms through a Denon X2800H 7.1 channel AVR rated at 150W per channel. I could have probably got away with some thinner wire but it looks brilliant with the banana plugs and I don’t mind the wire on show as it looks like a proper job!
Very happy although as the room is an awkward shape I did not quite have enough to cover the whole system and I am using some old wire for a couple of speakers, I will be back for more after my wallet has recovered from the outlay on the new AVR and the better half is looking the other way! Very happy with it at the price point as other similar spec cables were quite easily twice this price.
As a young graduate I bought a superb hi-fi bundle almost 40 years ago, including Technics amp and KEF speakers, which are still working well to this day. I remember the guy in the shop pulling a length of cable off a reel – door bell wire, still got it, with the felt pen marks where i traced one side all along the length. More recently I had to move the sub for the tv surround sound speaker and its thin cable was too short so needed a new length.
Got onto Amazon and selected this real all copper cable with transparent cover and identifying markings. Came very fast from Germany. Replaced the sub woofer cable, and with the remainder, changed the cables from the hi-fi to the big speakers.
Thicker than the ancient bell wire, very flexible cover, a bit more tricky to fit to the speakers because of the much greater thickness.
Having spent money to replace something that has worked fine for years, I am relieved and pleased to say that I could notice the improvement in sound with the first CD that was played.
What I really can tell the difference between, is the physical properties of the cable. How it bends, how it cuts, and how it fractures or not in use.
You can be confident that any speaker cable that is NOT advertised with “OFC” nowadays is an economy cable with 10-20% copper on the surface of an aluminium core. If it were OFC, you can bet they would want to shout about it. If it’s only CCA – copper clad aluminium- they probably prefer to say nothing.
What you need to know about aluminium is that it fractures easily because it is not very resilient. Remember ever waggling a ring-pull a few times on a coke can to break it off? This means tightly bending CCA cable, or frequent unplugging and plugging back in things and screwing it into binding terminals, risks fracturing it. I got initially some sound dropout after putting my last CCA cable in banana plugs, sorted by rotating the plug. When it decided to remove the banana plugs to put them on OFC cable, some little fragments of individual CCA wires dropped out- it’s easy to fracture it. Doesn’t happen on the copper cables.
If you want cable for a permanent speaker installation, I think a CCA cable that is not very thin would do fine. If you are an audio buff who likes to do comparisons and move speakers around, you need pure copper cable. Excess copper cable will wind smaller to keep it out of the way and you won’t have to check it so carefully for broken strands every time you want to screw the wires in something. Besides that, its resistance is almost half that of CCA cable, so 2.5mm CCA cable probably has a very similar resistance to 1.5mm OFC cable. So your proper point of price comparison should be 1.5mm OFC v 2.5mm CCA I think- the precise numbers will certainly be on the web somewhere.
Now I have used both I will stay with OFC cables for the future.
I needed about 12 metres of run from the amplifier, and you’re best off using the thickest cable you can get, hence 4mm2. Bi-wiring these might then be OTT, but better to over-do it. Measuring 50m of cable into quarters was an exercise in itself. I had to uncoil the cable and spread it out along the length of the house, and then some, so I was sure I had 4 equal lengths before cutting.
I put a dab of silver solder on the cable ends to stop the strands from splaying, and connected the cable to Nakamichi banana plugs at the speaker end, joining 4 cables to 2 banana plugs at the amplifier end. One of each pair of cables is clearly-marked with a red stripe. I then used red heat-shrink wrap at the ends for that side, and the red plugs. I then used white heat-shrink wrap for the other pair of cables on one lead, and black for the other so that when you plug them in you know which cable is which.
I did slip up slightly in that one should conventionally have the signal go in the direction of the writing on the wires. Once I cut the first pair though I just wired them up as they were, meaning one pair of wires was the wrong way round. After wiring it all up, and having put a dab of solder on the amp ends connecting them together I decided to leave it. I did reverse one of the second pair to correct the direction. Once run-in I don`t expect any issues.
The sound of the new cables is much fuller than they were, definitely more bass is arriving at the speakers and they now sound like they did in the shop.
The price of the these cables was around 20% of the cost of the speakers. Possibly the 2.5mm2 cables would have done the same job, I can`t tell. These 4mm2 cables are a little more future-proofed and do the job very well. The whole making and laying of the cables did take me around 4 hours. There was a delay as the banana plugs I had ready to take the paired wires at the amplifier end turned out to be too troublesome. You may need to select your plugs carefully that are taking 8mm2 of copper, many won’t. The ones I had took the cable OK but the pins turned out to be ever so slightly too big to fit in the amplifier sockets! I used a spare set.
Very pleased with the results, the cables look smart, and feel pretty tough, and they sound fine. There might be 2 or 3% better-sounding cables if you want to spend 20 times the money, but for speakers that cost in hundreds of pounds rather than thousands I doubt you will hear better.
When we moved our audio system, we needed just under 8m for the longest of 2 speaker cables, so, not being obsessed with making both cables exactly the same length, we bought 15m of this 4mm2 cable to replace our similar thickness QED cables, as they weren’t long enough.
One thing we noticed straight away was the ‘OFC’ copper in the Kabeldirekt cable seems a paler-pink colour than the darker, ”redder’ copper in the QED cable.
Cosmetics: We think the cables look smart. We fitted them to mostly hide the red line along the side of the clear sleeve, which allows the copper to remain visible; the red line does however make it a doddle to connect each end of the Kabeldirekt correctly in-phase.
Sound: Subjectively we think the Kabeldirekt cables make the audible sound slightly ‘brighter’ than the QED cables deliver, perhaps a little less warm-sounding. (When playing CD’s on a Rega deck, through a KT88 valve amp, out of Mission 8-ohm speakers).
The only thing we don’t like about the Kabeldirekt cable is, the copper threads do not seem to be packed as tight as in the ‘harder’ QED cable.
On the one hand this makes the Kabeldirekt cable easier to bend when fitting, but on the other hand if you run it across a larger gap between cable clips (in our case across an old stone wall below visible ceiling joists) it sags visibly and is harder to tension to a straight line. (Yes we could use surface-mounted plastic trunking, but we don’t want to hide the copper appearance, and who wants plastic trunking across an old stone wall?)
The other effect is, when we twisted the ends tight to fit into speaker connections the resulting copper is thinner than it initially looks.
What we don’t know is whether over time the core will oxidise inside the sleeve due to the looser packing; our QED cables are a few years old and the copper is still bright when the sleeve is stripped.
Kabeldirekt cable: ‘Yes’ we’d buy it again, at this price point it must be a Best Buy, we just hope hope the core doesn’t oxidise inside the sleeve over time.