Speaker Cable Quality

I'm decorating and want to install speaker wires in the wall before I buy a Megaworks system. What standard are Creative speaker wires? Can I buy any high quality speaker cable or does it have to be Creative cable. Naturally I'd like to buy the best as the wire is going in the wall.
I gather that there is a plug at either end of your cable.
Is this a standard jack plug?
I'd like to get the room finished before I install the speakers. Thanx

The creative speaker wire is of good quality. I use QED silver micro which is about the same guage, but silver plated to bring out the treble from the speakers a bit more - as long as bare wire is connected to the speaker and the speaker cable terminated eith RCA phono plugs on the other then the sound is fine. The full scale silver anni'versary are very thick and difficult to solder to the RCA phono plug- if you were to try Id suggest using a variable heat soldering station set to 300C to avoid cold solder points.

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