Monster speaker wire

[nimrod 10+ year member]

I have some Monster speaker wire (I know, overpriced and over rated) that I'm going to use for my speakers. My question is.. There is a little plastic tube in the wire (Monster calls it a magnetic flux tube), anyway when I go to crimp on a connector, should I cut the plastic tube off of the portion that is going to be under the crimp, or leave it there? I,ve never seen wire with plastic running through the center of it until this week.

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[93dakota 10+ year member]

I would just leave it

 

[SWFL 10+ year member]

plastic inside the strands of wire dooo what, post a pic

 

[01 S 10 10+ year member]

plastic inside the strands of wire dooo what, post a pic

take up space to save on putting wire in there and sell it overpriced. i have the same stuff. i hate stripping it

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

You leave it in there. Monster cable isn't the only company that uses an air space in the center of the wires.... it's pretty common in high end cable.

 

[nimrod 10+ year member]

take up space to save on putting wire in there and sell it overpriced. i have the same stuff. i hate stripping it

Well, when you do strip it, do you cut out the plastic in the center?

 

[nimrod 10+ year member]

Thanks Beat Dominator

 

[Nobody's Louder 10+ year member]

They claim its suppose to help with the signal or something like that and have less distortion.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

meh, leave it or cut it. doesn't matter.

 

[93dakota 10+ year member]

plastic inside the strands of wire dooo what, post a pic

The tube is supposed counter the magnetic field that the signal in the wire creates reducing interference.

 

[linvillegorge 10+ year member]

I picked up a few feet of the stuff at Ultimate Electronics just because I needed something to run a ground wire. That stuff is **** near impossible to strip! What a pain in the ass!

 

[Kil4Thril 10+ year member]

I picked up a few feet of the stuff at Ultimate Electronics just because I needed something to run a ground wire. That stuff is **** near impossible to strip! What a pain in the ass!

Is that the stuff where you almost have to strip it twice, once for the insulation, and then there's a slightly harder almost "skin" tight against the wire? Not to mention the plastic center dielectric.

 

[linvillegorge 10+ year member]

I didn't notice the skin, but the insulation they use is just horrible. It's stiff, it's hard, almost impossible to cut and then once you cut it, you can't just strip it like normal - you have to cut it parallel to the wire and literally peel it off. Horrible.

I'd hate to have to do a full run with this crap. My 1/0 guage welding wire was MUCH easier to work with than this stuff.

I can't believe Ultimate Electronics uses this stuff for their installs. I'd hate to be an installer there. Plus, how many installs are you going to be doing charging $2.75/ft. for the freaking wire?! I'm just glad I only needed a few feet for a ground.

 

[Gebrochen 10+ year member]

Doesn't matter. Just leave it in there.

 

[TnT_Sounds 10+ year member]

Shouldn't matter either way... Current flows on the outside of the cable anyways, not the inside. I'd save yourself the hastle and leave it.