Don’t waste your time on snake oil. If you can run digital out that’ll be great, if not any decent RCA cable will work, seriously as long as it has decent shielding and good connections you’ll be good. For speaker wire get good oxygen free copper of the appropriate size. Cables have long been one of the biggest snake oil rip offs in the hobby, don’t fall for it.

I spent leas than $50 for 6 channels of RCAs just to put into perspective how inexpensive it can be to get perfectly good cables.

 

I recommend to spend on $$ quality rcas and speaker wire , I was using knukonceptz rcas and speaker wire back when i started into car audio about 10 years ago , I now use stinger 9000 interconnects and mono price copper speaker wire and I would never go back to cheap low quality brands . They do make a difference in sound and you can get them( stinger 9000) used here in the classifieds for a fair price you just have keep an eye and check often because they sale fast.

 

No they do not make a difference in sound. Only noise rejection. If an rca is changing the sound then it is bad

 

People are gonna believe what they're gonna believe.

Here we go..

 

That was just my opinion shared with good intention , nothing more. At the end it's up to each one of us what to buy what not to buy , no different than some one suggests x brand of speakers vs x brand of speakers or amplifiers , same concept different day.

 

I have knuconceptz crystal on my sub amps and stinger for the rest. I can't tell the difference. 🤷🏽 my installer said the knukonceptz was too thick and hard to work with so he swapped them out for stinger. If it weren't for that I would have only had knukonceptz in there now.

 

I have the Karma Rca and speaker wire, and they are thick. I had a hell of a time getting the speaker wire in the doors. After struggling with the first run, I decided to run the Kord blue instead of trying to squeeze another karma cable in the doors.
If I have to do it again, I'll go with speed wire or something similar.

Or this, I have a roll of the 22awg, and they're flexible enough and easy to work with. Amazon.com: GS Power 16 Gauge Wire (16 AWG) - 100 Foot, Pure Copper, Stranded Electrical Wiring for Speaker, Automotive, Trailer, Stereo and Home Theater Applications - Red/Black : Automotive

 

Buy quality cables so that they survive the car environment. Not in hopes of them sounding better.

 

I made mine because i wanted them to be an
Exact length, plus I already had the wire and ends but i agree with miniSQ. There’s no reason to spend crazy money but don’t buy complete garbage either, or use the freebies that come with stuff.

If you want to make them planet waves has an easy solution but it’s not cheap. Roughly $6.50 per end and a $1.30 per foot of wire. So do the math on that and it can add up quick compared to some good quality pre-made cables.

Actually I’ll do some math so a 5’ 2 ch rca cable from waves would be $39 and for example this 17’ stinger is $20.

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It all depends on whats more important to you (cables cut to the perfect length/or cheaper and easy but you will most likely have some excess wire to deal with) but I highly doubt you’ll hear any difference between the 2.

 

I made mine because i wanted them to be an
Exact length, plus I already had the wire and ends but i agree with miniSQ. There’s no reason to spend crazy money but don’t buy complete garbage either, or use the freebies that come with stuff.

If you want to make them planet waves has an easy solution but it’s not cheap. Roughly $6.50 per end and a $1.30 per foot of wire. So do the math on that and it can add up quick compared to some good quality pre-made cables.

Actually I’ll do some math so a 5’ 2 ch rca cable from waves would be $39 and for example this 17’ stinger is $20.

Amazon.com

It all depends on whats more important to you (cables cut to the perfect length/or cheaper and easy but you will most likely have some excess wire to deal with) but I highly doubt you’ll hear any difference between the 2.

I made these to go from the DSP to the amplifiers, all of different lengths. Although the RCA connects were slightly under $2.00 each once I add cable, solder, shrink sleeves, tech flex, and time they got expensive.

 

^^^ well maybe you don’t hear a difference but I do hear the extra details and better mid bass punch using the same speakers and amps and just swapping out the knukonceptz for the stingers, don’t forget the stingers and a few other rcas are silver coated on top of using high grade copper and rhodium coated rca ends. If your opinion was correct than there would be no business for high end brands like brax, genesis , mosconi , zapco etc. we could just all run to our local Walmart or auto zone and buy an entire system slap it in our vehicle and be done , well since you say it’s our bias that makes hear the difference lolz

 

Yea, I wouldn't bother with crazy high end RCAs and speaker wire. I don't know what quality knukonceptz had 10 years ago but thier stuff now is good enough. Just don't buy your RCAs from the dollar tree and make sure your speaker wire is OCF and the appropriate size for your application. You will not hear the difference between stinger and knukonceptz RCAs. Now if you went digital into your DSP then there may be a difference, but when your flying down the hwy will you remember them differences. I don't remember the songs I listen to on my way to work this morning.🤷🏽‍♂️ to each their own I guess. You want better midbass response add a front sub not high end RCAs. Better clarity to your front stage? spend the time tunning.

 

Yea, I wouldn't bother with crazy high end RCAs and speaker wire.
You want better midbass response add a front sub not high end RCAs. Better clarity to your front stage? spend the time tunning.

Yeh wouldn't worry about high-price RCA unless it is for cool points or building for custom length (which sometimes can be cheaper than what some companies sell them for).
A person will be hard-pressed to hear the difference between cables, if there is any.
If there is a difference, I will gander. It's so minuscule it wouldn't be worth the effort over other gear that makes a noticeable difference.
You know what a person will hear a difference in, Speakers and amplifiers, speakers above all.
Anywho, it's his money. Let him spend it how he wants.

 

I'm going to go along with the consensus...
Don't get too excited about 'high quality' wire... most of it is marketing BS anyway.

Wire won't make you bass deeper, or your highs higher.
Definitely nothing you'd ever percieve in an automotive environment.

Get a decent set of automotive grade RCA's and some 16awg or 14awg OFC speaker wire, and you'll be fine.
Noise rejection is all you really need to care about, and most decent automotive RCA's are designed for this.

 

Definitely not high price i do agree with that , as i said in the beginning high quality and as the saying goes " you get what you pay for", i've paid around $65 for each pair of rcas 2- bought used here in the classifieds and one pair on ebay, I wouldn't spend more than $100 for a new pair of interconnects that's why i suggested used at a fair price.

 

This is my subwoofer rca cable $63.95 for a pair , length is 1.5 meters and great quality cable , shielding and rca ends. Check it out:

Van Damme Silver Series Lo-Cap 55pF Interconnect Cable WBT-0144 Locking RCA Plug | eBay

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My speaker wire. 14ga OFC. I even paid retail instead of using my employee discount