Got the job done that I wanted with this wire, which was to pull one wire for stereo speakers rather than 2 each. For that it was great. I gave 4 instead of 5 stars because the outer shield is very difficult to strip. Whe trying my usual stripping, I had to use extra force and therefore would nick the wire often. This therefore caused me to be more cautious which slowed down the process and was just overall difficult to work with.