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This came as described at a decent price. 14 gauge is a great all-purpose wire. One side is silver and the other side is copper. Nothing on the package says Metra though. It says Raptor. All the Metra wires say Raptor "made in China". Metra's best deal is the 100' 10 gauge for $38 delivered.

UPDATE: I got another one of these and it was short 6 ft. When doing in-wall wiring, that's not good. I had to make an extra trip to Walmart because of Metra. The other complaints about wire length against metra may be true. The only reason I found out was because I knew how long of a wire I needed. When it was short, I then measured the wire against a tape measure. 6 ft short is a large percentage on 50 ft. I will no longer order from Metra.

Very finely stranded true 14 gauge speaker wire. I COULD tell the difference btwn this and a 50 foot $10 roll of standard 16 gauge I got yesterday from RadioShack. The RS wire had all of 19 strands whereas this METRA wire has nearly 200 strands. Neither is advertised as Oxygen Free nor are they priced as such. I did a side to side comparison between the two and I was impressed. The sound quality improvement with the METRA wire was significant. METRA's sound was fuller, louder with the same volume setting and more distinct. I'm removing and tossing the RShack wiring as soon as I get another roll of this in.

I've purchased 2 rolls of the 50' and one roll of the 100' - they were all 10% short. The wire is excellent.

A nice heavy gauge wire that's more than sufficient for most home users. I didn't have any problem distinguishing the (+) from (-). There's not much to say about speaker wire except it works as expected and was much cheaper here than at a local electronics store.

Recently ran my new home theater using this cord.

Great quality cord, with solid connections. I had no problem stripping the wire, or using my banana clips to connect to the receiver.