Amazon Basics 16 AWG speaker cable with banana tips, 1.8 m

The rating that has legal weight

CL2. It is a fire-safety classification for cable run inside a building cavity, describing how the jacket behaves in a fire. Ordinary PVC speaker cable is not permitted inside a wall under most European building rules, and this is the only entry on this shelf that carries the rating.

That makes it the reference item here even though its length rules it out for most in-wall work.

The odd thing about this listing

It is 1.8 metres long. An in-wall run is almost never 1.8 metres, so the rating and the length point at different jobs. Read it as evidence that this maker’s cable is available with the rating, and check the length you actually need.

The conductor

16 AWG — about 1.3 mm² — of 99.9% oxygen-free copper. Cross-section matters against length: 1.5 mm² is the usual recommendation for room-length runs and 2.5 mm² for long ones. At under two metres, 1.3 mm² is not a constraint on anything.

The termination

Moulded gold-plated 4 mm banana tips. Nothing to strip, nothing to screw, and nothing that can be redone if a tip is damaged. That is the trade against the plug sets on this shelf.

Availability

On sale from 9 € to 13 € on the German, American, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores at the time of checking.

The German Amazon listing is priced above 1.6× the cheapest store, which is normally a reshipping offer rather than a local price; it is left out of the range above.

Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.