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How many use cables hooked to their decks that are good as the rest of their system???
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500.00 a foot everything, but now use the cheapest Rat Shack cables imaginable, the ones that every body throughs in the dumpster, my system sound better than it ever has. I still have the fancy IC's, cables etc, but all my sources have the above mentioned throw away IC's. My resoning is not a lack of $ for the cabling, just it is absoltely not needed IMO. I am sure anything that RAT Shack has on there shelves would easily be good enough, for balanced stuff, I make my own.
"Music is love"
Teresa
I've been trying to build cables that I can live with out of CAT5e wire. So far I've only done an XLO format into cheap solderless plugs from radioshack. They beat out all my store bought cables so far. I don't have anything fancy though, just Monster, RCA, and some stuff that came with various audio equipment over the years. I do think there is real potential in building your own if you don't like spending what I consider a lot of money.
Silver Iris owning analog addict. Please help.....
Hi there.
If you're rig is only as good as your weakest link, a bad cable anywhere will compromise the fidelity at best, or worse, cause potentially damaging shorts.
That said, I don't buy into the idea you have to spend thousands on a cable. There's only so good any electrical connection can possibly be. I usually roll my own cables with Cardas or ProCo cable and Neutrik or Dayton plugs. A typical set of 6 foot stereo patch cables cost me maybe $30 to build. And the quality is far ahead of a comparably priced already built cable.
I make my own, since you never really know what kind of solder joints are on even a good quality cable. I've bought some supposedly good quality cables with lousy solder joints that have failed and needed repair. I've developed good soldering technique, and my solder joints have always held up.
Cheers & enjoy the tunes,
Bobbo :-)
I do with my two reel-to-reel decks. Same Oyaide PA-02 cables terminated with Bullet Plugs as in the rest of the system. And I use the same power cords (CryoMax III) as elsewhere too, for which I got roundly slammed here a while back. Made a big, positive difference.
Thanks All
I do , I use the same cables on everything except the dac/Cd . I stumbled upon a local company who was selling very nice cables rather cheap . I had an $80 dollar set of cables by Prisma on my SAE deck at the time and these cheapies sounded noticably better ? So I bought about 20 pairs in various lengths over a year or so until they no longer had them . they look very much like monster from the the 90's but were $5 ?
Funny you should ask that today. I just got one of the Bottlehead tape repo amps ( preproduction #1) and was testing different cables between my rs1500 and the repo amp. The signal is being fed directly from the heads so low capacitance is important for good high freq. response. I went through 5 sets of ic's and the best by far were my phono cables. They're Silver Audio silver breeze cables with rca's at both ends. The runner up was a pair of Tom Evans cables that are sadly no longer sold. They're both silver cables but the biggest difference was transparency and dynamics and not freq as I would have expected. The difference, in this application at least, was night and day. Bummer! Now I need some new phono cables!
What a load of old crap!
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