16 Gauge Speaker Wire Pants (Y Boot) - 10 Pack - High-Quality Speaker Cable Connectors for Home Theater & Audio Systems

The speaker wire I have consists of 2 16 gauge stranded (i.e. not solid) wires, each with their own plastic jackets (one black, one red). Both of these wires run together inside of a white plastic jacket. The white looks pretty good, but it kind of looks ugly at the ends where the red and black wires split out. Just looks unfinished. Thus the need for these wire pants.They work great. I had to install a total of 8. 4 where my wires go into a wall plate and 4 more where the are connected to the other wall plate. They look much nicer than the plain wires just coming straight out of the white jacket. The white to black transition looks a little funny to me, and I am thinking about covering the wires with black "tech flex" to give them a more consistent look, but that is just my preference.BONUS: my cats can no longer chew on my wires!!! Before I installed these, my dumb cats would sometimes chew on the wires right where they went into the terminators (for who knows what reason). They don't seem to mess with these though, and even if they did, these things are pretty thick so I doubt it would do any harm.The only complaint is that they are too big for my 16 gauge wire. I am not reducing my rating because this was my own fault. It clearly says these are for 10 gauge wire. It really doesn't look that bad, and I think the extra space might actually work out if I decide to wrap the wires in tech flex.I wanted to tuck the 2 "Y" ends into my terminators (banana plugs), but there was too much material to fit them in. So I just took some scissors and split the tubes in half, from the ends to about 1/2 and inch back, and cut off one half of the tube. For example if you were looking at the tube head on, the first half inch would be a "U" shape instead of an "O" shape (hope that makes sense, lol). Once I did that, I was able to tuck the ends into the terminators just fine.Bottom line: I would definitely recommend these. Just make sure you check your wire size first.