You make a good point about it being unamplified. To be fair, I pretty much committed every audio cable sin by running the cheap speaker cables in parallel with

You make a good point about it being unamplified. To be fair, I pretty much committed every audio cable sin by running the cheap speaker cables in parallel with powered cables with the excess coiled up plopped on top of coiled power cables. Maybe it would've been fine just not running it parallel to power or not coiling. But yes on very important for the line side. Connected a long cheap RCA cable to powered speakers, and the moment I pulled it across carpet the speakers started crackling. Then I understood exactly what my buddy meant by "these are garbage" when he gave them to me, so not too sure what the intended purpose of such a long poorly insulated RCA cable was.