TEMCo 8 to 32 AWG Copper Magnet Wire - 200°C Magnetic Coil Winding

Used as speaker wire in hi-fi stereo setup. Equivalent to a similar product offered as speaker wire for $232 a set (Anti-Cables). The coating is quite durable, and designed to resist shorting at several orders of magnitude a greater current than what is used for speaker applications. I tried to burn off the coating with a lighter to no effect, so ended up using a a small rust remover grinding wheel on my drill to sand off the coating so that i could install each cut end to my speaker binding post. I created a small shepherd hook at each end with pliers really had to crank down on the binding post lock nut to keep the wire in place. Installing bare wire end jumpers for the dual binding posts on my Paradigm Studio 80 speakers was a real challenge. I spent maybe 2 hours total installing the wire into my system. The effort was well worth it. I immediately noticed a leap in clarity in the treble and high midrange. I use a Bryston 4b-st for amplification, connected to an Anthem MRX510 with Arc for processing with Audioquest columbia interconnects. My previous speaker cables had been 12 gauge generic speaker wire from home depot, bested by 12 gauge bi-wired, bested by DIY White Lightning speaker cable (woods patio power extension cord cut to equal lengths and bi-wired). The white lightning cables had just been compared to a set of $300 Audioquest Rocket 33 bi-wire cables, and the DIY cables matched or exceeded the Audioquest product in a a number of categories on a number of different sources and recorded material. This magnet wire exceeded my previous cables in every category, compared on all the same sources and recorded material. I did notice a slight characteristic noted by other people who have used magnet wire for speaker cable, a slight ringing, like the speakers were set in a metal drain pipe and turned up a bit too loud and the walls gave the sound a slight metallic echo. This has disappeared after a day or two of playing while i was at work. some people say that all speaker wire should sound the same, and that there is no such thing as speaker wire burn in. I would never be able to convince such people otherwise, but i can tell you about what i observed in my system and my satisfaction with how this experiment turned out. The soundstage is very wide (well outside the speakers, and even wider than my room), but shallow and lacks some of the pinpoint imaging i've seen with other speaker cable; but that is more than offset by the treble and midrange clarity. I may buy another reel to bi-wire the speakers to see if that enhances the bass response any, but I'll probably be content with this set-up for a while. Best $25 I've spent on a Hi-Fi audio component.

Arrived very fast, packed very sturdy. I got the 1lb 24 gauge wire. I was very happy to see it came on a spool. Both ends are visible as seen in my photo. I twisted, rolled, bent and flexed the heck out of it to see how it reacted. It was very flexible, held the shape I put it in, most importantly the enamel coating did not crack or chip at all. I bought this 1lb spool to see what the qualiy was and I'm very happy with it. I plan to buy a larger spool. If there is Con, I'd say there is an area on the spool where the wire wasn't wound straight. UPDATE. I've been using this wire for a bit now and I'm very impressed with it. No issues, no cracks!

I have discovered ages ago that enamel copper wire can't be beaten when used on good speakersBenefits:1. Correctly reproduces entire frequency range2. Excels in transient response and dynamics (attacks, decay, surges in loudness)3. Superb resolution of detail (unravels the sound) and tone ("color" of voice and instruments)4. Soundstage width is enormous, depth is there, precision of image is pinpoint.5. Insanely inexpensive, beats $$$$ cables in performance.Well worth the time-consuming scraping of the connection ends with an X-Acto knife.

The company takes a few days to ship, but the wire works for my needs (wire sculpting). It's some of the best priced wire I can find anywhere. It's fastened to a spool during shipment so it's neatly contained upon arrival (no mess of knotted wires as others have complained about in reviews of other companies). It's pretty great.

The enameled coating is protected by an overcoat and is itself very tough. I used this wire to build an impedance transformer for matching my HF radio to an end fed halfwave antenna. The wire diameter and coating were very consistent across all 40 feet and there was no loss of insulating capability despite tight twists and coils (see photo). I confirmed with an ohm meter. I will buy from Temco again without hesitation.

This wire is great for winding coils because it has insulation on the outside of it; even though it doesn't look like it, it does. You must be careful however not to scratch the coating of the wire otherwise you could have a potential short. I would recommend this wire to anybody who builds their own coils, inventors, experimenters, etc.

I am using this to wind coils for a hybrid electric fuel engine I designed and patented. Seems good quality, I have wound some beautiful coils using a coil winder I built as well.

I made an impedance matching transformer for an amateur radio antenna. The enamel coating was flexible and tough, while the wire was easier to form than I expected.