Does speaker cable get old?

I have some 20+ year old Monster cable. I have replaced the terminal a
few times, but I assume that the cable is not what it was. Is there

Richard Crowley...

There is serious question whether it ever WAS what it claimed to be.

any reason to get something new?

Richard Crowley...

Unlikely. OTOH, re-terminating the ends couldn't hurt.

Peter Larsen...

Nobody seems to have addressed your question in the subject header. It
is quite probable that it ages approximately 12 months every year.

Peter Larsen...

Peter Larsen

Joe Kesselman...

If the cable hasn't been abused (agressively/sharply/frequently flexed),

Geoff...

It's true ! I have a 5 metre pair of 3.0mmm² cable and after just 3 months
they were 5mm thick at the NE end and 1mm thick at the SW end. Rotating
them evened up the diametrical imbalance over a similiar period of time.

When even diamters I sheilded them in a mumetal casing and they remained
the same diameter distribution ever since, having had their pure (and oxygen
free) copper molecules sheilded from the delatarious effects of the earth's
magnetic field.

Now to do the same to my turntable - the difference in angle wrt NS from the
outer to the inner of a disc does sdeem to alter the channel balance
significantly.

it's almost certainly fine. Take an ohm-meter to it and see what it says.

If you do decide to replace it, see much past discussion of why you
shouldn't pay for Monster cables again.