What Brand Of Wires Are Best For Installations?

[bones justice 10+ year member]

Which wires are best for installs. My fren has Kicker wires and another got Lightning Audio. However the car audio store by me says Rockford and Stinger never fails, althought kicker and lightning audio is good stuff as well. can anyone advise me?

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[sdmtnbiker420 10+ year member]

lighning audio sucks as a company,

but its hard to screw up wires. I'd go with anything thick.

 

[TylerBD12 10+ year member]

I love my Kicker Hyperflex. So easy to work with.

 

[Rich B 5,000+ posts]

Kicker or Knu.

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

just make sure its made of copper... and has a high strand count...

 

[jaco 10+ year member]

kicker > stinger

knukonceptz > kicker

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I have a mixture of RF, Stinger, and StreetWires wiring and related accessories.

None of it has given me any reason to regret buying it/using it thus far.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

just dont get brown wires, they supposedly sound like poop. brighter colors will make the sound brighter, and darker colors will make the sound more muddy. so i usually try to get some sort of middle tone to make the sound neutral.

hope that helps.

lawl.

 

[Max_Power 10+ year member]

never had any problems with my Stinger stuff. I like it for its flexibility, but then again Ive never tried much else. I say go with Knu soley based on its price. That's hard to beat the deal they give on a quality product.

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[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

I have Stinger, Rockford (Lightning is the exact same stuff) and Audiopipe in my system currently. The RF and Stinger wire are easy to wrap around stuff but the individual strands are so fine that it's almost impossible to get them into a terminal without a couple of stray strands sticking out. Also if you're trying to fish wire through a tight spot, it CAN be too limp. That's one of the reasons that I can't understand the idea of paying extra (a lot extra) for more flexible wire. Once it's past a certain degree of flexibility, any more is really counterproductive IMO. I can tell the difference in the two batches of Audiopipe 1/0 that I have. They are different grades, one being kinda stiff and the other being pretty much what I consider perfect. All the Audiopipe stuff I got off eBay for about 1/2 what Stinger wire goes for and a little cheaper than Knu.