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I'd use the Canare wire, just because that has a proven record of rejecting noise in extremely high-noise environments. I think both would be fine, though.
Alternately, you could twist your own using Teflon dielectric silver-plated copper, such as the surplus stuff on offer at apexjr.com. That's why I wire both of my cars with, NOT because I think it's any better than any other interconnect but because it's a considerably smaller package.
Alternately, you could twist your own using Teflon dielectric silver-plated copper, such as the surplus stuff on offer at apexjr.com. That's why I wire both of my cars with, NOT because I think it's any better than any other interconnect but because it's a considerably smaller package.
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Canare Star quad has worked for me in $20k installs and $2k ones just fine, cheap, clean, looks good, zero noise issues, no reason to do anything else but DS-21's idea sounds cool, I will have to see if it weighs less than the Canare for my race car project, really, lol!
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How much more costly is buying RCA's rather than making your own.....I'd love to make mine to save money here and there......mabey this is out of my league lol.....hmmm. What all does it take to make noise free RCA to XLR cables?
It really does not cost much if you can solder well...however crimp style RCA's can be costly due to the initial cost of tools. Buy a quality cable ( canare starquad really is great cable)...use a neutrik xlr and any decent RCA from partsexpress and you should have a very nice set of interconnects. The cable will be just as good as your expensive top of the line monster or stinger RCA cables.demon2091tb said:
I sell alot of the Monster cable at work, and I ALWAYS take them apart to see what they look like, and there's nothing special to the Connectors or soldering job... honestly I like mine better.
The differences I think are the % of shielding and the gauge of wire, and if they are twisted... For XLR I thought this was important? I don't know, but the kind I made were only unbalanced, so didn't really matter.
I bought 100' of 85% copper shielded coax 18 gauge stranded copper (roughly) from parts express, and those 6$ a pair connectors, I made like I think 6, 16' runs roughly... barely made it to my trunk, I really wish I had made them all 20' long and just bought more wire.
It ended up costing me like 6$ x 6 + ~50$ for the wire = 90$ for 3 pairs of unbalanced... it's obviously going to be more for balanced, but if you can run balanced, obviously use it.
I would never pay a hefty price for wire rubbed on the A$$ of a Pixie, for the ultimate in high fidelity... (avsforums quote). That was the best line ever, someone was comparing the price of cheap cabling vs. super expensive...
I sell the expensive ****, I sell the relatively expensive monster ****... Is it worth it? maybe, it's better than the 20 gauge radio shack stuff being soldered and all... If you keep the wiring forever... maybe it is worth it, but you can save yourself a bundle, and IMHO it's just as good...
However I would reccomend against RG6, I used that in my wife's install because the crimp type RCA connectors were the only ones available at the time, now they make it for RG59 which is slightly better, but I like the flexibility of the stranded vs. a solid core and copper tinned or just plain tinned wire. I think the "guitar signal" cable is a better wire for RCAs than the Cable TV app... Just my thoughts
The differences I think are the % of shielding and the gauge of wire, and if they are twisted... For XLR I thought this was important? I don't know, but the kind I made were only unbalanced, so didn't really matter.
I bought 100' of 85% copper shielded coax 18 gauge stranded copper (roughly) from parts express, and those 6$ a pair connectors, I made like I think 6, 16' runs roughly... barely made it to my trunk, I really wish I had made them all 20' long and just bought more wire.
It ended up costing me like 6$ x 6 + ~50$ for the wire = 90$ for 3 pairs of unbalanced... it's obviously going to be more for balanced, but if you can run balanced, obviously use it.
I would never pay a hefty price for wire rubbed on the A$$ of a Pixie, for the ultimate in high fidelity... (avsforums quote). That was the best line ever, someone was comparing the price of cheap cabling vs. super expensive...
I sell the expensive ****, I sell the relatively expensive monster ****... Is it worth it? maybe, it's better than the 20 gauge radio shack stuff being soldered and all... If you keep the wiring forever... maybe it is worth it, but you can save yourself a bundle, and IMHO it's just as good...
However I would reccomend against RG6, I used that in my wife's install because the crimp type RCA connectors were the only ones available at the time, now they make it for RG59 which is slightly better, but I like the flexibility of the stranded vs. a solid core and copper tinned or just plain tinned wire. I think the "guitar signal" cable is a better wire for RCAs than the Cable TV app... Just my thoughts
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