Green internal wire

[drewb]

Found this in my old wire bin. It is first generation "Monster Cable". It is not from a Klipsch but it is the type they used in the 1980's I am told. I offer as a reference to the uninitiated who are looking at their wire's condition. If your wire looks like this, replace it. This is copper oxide corrosion. It happens because they did not use oxygen free copper and put the insulation on in an inert atmosphere. Modern cable is done this way to prevent the problem shown here. Does it sound bad? In a word, yes. Very, very bad. Muddy, no highs or lows, like a cheap system.

[levir]

I hope you did not paid too much for those speaker wires. That looks like a bad case of corrosion. You could probably return those under warranty.

[Tubinhard]

Wire doesn't make any difference, just go a head and put that back in.