Can this wire be buried directly in soil?

For my in ground install I bought the cable they use for low voltage outdoor landscape lighting (bought it at Home Depot). It is inexpensive, carries the signal fantastically, and is designed for direct burial. Unless properly insulated, aluminum doesn't do well when it is in direct contact with the soil. FYI - I am an electrical contractor with 35 years experience so I know a little about direct burial cable. Hope that helps.

is true as thicker the copper better the signal ir what is thanks

Hello William,Thank you for your question! Generally, the thicker gauge will transfer signal better than the thinner gauge. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions and I will be happy to assist you.

is this wire flat enough to run under wall to wall carpet?

Wire run directly under carpet is unsafe, even for speaker wires. Wire run under carpeting gets stepped on crushed and ground by the fine grit that passes through the carpet, and the soft vinyl insulation fails under the carpet where heat builds up until the carpet ignites. It's a major source of electrical fires and the primary reason why the electrical code now requires new installations to use arc fault circuit breakers that detect the failing insulation and shut off the power. When speaker wires are run under the carpet the fault power is limited only by the output power of the amplifier. Any audio amplifier you'd buy 14AWG speaker wire for can deliver far more than enough power for failing insulation to build up heat and ignite a fire under a carpet. Amplifiers don't pass the high frequency current noise of a developing fault to the power line so an arc fault circuit interrupter won't shut off the power. The safe solutions are all boring, unpleasant, or difficult to implement. You can route the wires a different direction to follow the perimeter of a room, even around a door frame to avoid an opening. You can use one of the products that protects wires under a carpet together with under-carpet padding to keep a flat carpet surface. You can also route UL listed cable (NB: this product isn't) through walls, above ceilings and under floors to emerge where you need it, although a renter may need the owner's consent to do something like that. You may find that concealing wires is easier when the wire is smaller. This is a CCA wire, which has same resistance as aluminum wire. Pound for pound Aluminum is one of the best conductors, but it isn't a dense metal. In the same wire size aluminum or CCA is only half as good a conductor as copper. A 14AWG aluminum or CCA wire has the same resistance as a 16AWG copper wire that's much smaller and more flexible and far easier to conceal.

Why does the package not tell us which is positive and which is negative? That hard to put on there?

Hello Erik,Typically when connecting speaker wire as a standard the solid or dashed white lines on the individual wire indicate that that particular cable carries the positive (+) polarity. The other cable that is unmarked (without dashes or white lines) is the negative (-) cable. As long as you use the cable with the white line as possitive across your entire setup, your equipment should all be setup properly and perform the way its intended using our GearIT speaker cable.Should you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me directly.

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M**G

Great Quality Speaker Wire

Great Quality Speaker Wire with a great price. Quality wires and insulation, negative wire is marked with a stripe. Worked great with my 2K Klipsch Sound system.

13.12.2025

D**M

Great speaker wire

First of all, this is an amazing price for this speaker wire. I bought this along with some banana clips hook up to my new to me onkyo receiver they are easy to cut and strip and they seem to carry a good sound. I would definitely recommend this speaker wire the price and look is amazing

22.12.2025

D**O

Excellent wire

This wire is extremely easy to use and has a lot of work ability. It’s pliable and thin strand copper wire cary the signals showing little if no resistance whatsoever. Excellent quality and craftsmanship. 👍

18.01.2026

A**R

Great product

Worked great

5.01.2026

A**D

Great speaker wire

Exactly the quality wire I was looking for for my entertainment room. Works excellent.

20.01.2026

E**I

Buy it again absolutely great price

Not much to say about it the wire was great had a great outer coating on On it very light on the insulation You wouldn't know unless you touch it and I was great cable it ran fine sounds good no distortion whatsoever I would buy it again for sure

20.10.2025

S**K

Good product

Came as described. Worked perfect for what I was doing.

19.01.2026

T**.

The Only Speaker Wire I Use!!!

Good Speaker Wire For the $$$ I Purchased The 100ft. Size So I Could Run My Set Of Paradigm Bookshelf Speakers As Rear-Back Surrounds In My 5.2.2ch Home Theatre Setup. My Onkyo TX-NR6050 A/V Receiver Had No Problem Delivering/Receiving Signal With These Speaker Wires. Thanks Amazon.com!!!

7.12.2025

A**R

Great production fast delivery thanks

30.09.2024

A**M

The product came with a little card that said they don't buy reviews, and would like me - the purchaser - to write one. Well, I ordered cable, and I received... cable! It is precisely as I expected, very cable like. It meets the desired gauge and colour specs and came on a pretty sturdy reel, despite the genuinely competitive price. I have not conducted an electrical analysis nor have I checked I actually have 200ft of it but it feels like perfectly decent 14awg speaker cable to me.

30.08.2025

A**A

Cavo di buona fattura

18.01.2026

Z**O

Good

16.05.2025

M**A

Es lo que ofrecen

28.04.2025

ASIN	B00HZWYP1G
Best Sellers Rank	#1,070 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #4 in Speaker Cables
Brand	GEARit
Color	Black
Date First Available	June 18, 2014
Gauge	14.0
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer	No
Item Weight	2.37 pounds
Item model number	GI-SPKR-14AWG-CC-100FT
Manufacturer	GEARit
Material	Copper Clad Aluminium
No. of wires	4
Number of Cable Strands	Multi Strand
Product Dimensions	4 x 5 x 4 inches
UPC	810166805131 894584494368

GEARit Speaker Wire 14 Gauge, Speaker Cable 100ft for Car Audio, Home Theater, CCA(Black)

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