Discounted in what way? His tests have shown that the shielded cable had lower noise overall, compared to the unshielded cables...

Although there's been question of the testing methods and conditions on both sides of the argument... I hardly think the debate is over.

 

Make you're own. I recently did some for my Home Theatre system. This is not the first time that I've made cables but it was the first time I built some high end cables with some care and finished them nicely. Ok, yes they were shielded etc, etc, but point is that it was actually a fun and rewarding experience and they work amazingly well. I ended up dropping money on those new bullet plug endz............... questionable purchase but cool looking.

 

You know what. I went from a non- sheilded RCA cable to a top of the line shielded Scosche cable in my car and there was no difference at all, of course there is a disgusting altenator whine but RCA cables are not designed to cure stuff like that.

 

a shield is completely useless unless it's drained to a 0v ground. for my next car I think I'll make a 6/0/6 Power Supply, and drain the ground to the 0 point on that.

 

MAN you out snobbed me, I could only afford silver streak because as sux2bu says I hate money! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

 

Dude, you imaging must SUCK! If ain't gots the KCAG hook-ups, then it must be like listening to AM on a $15 walk-man

 

Just for the record, I've achieved bigger improvements in SQ from working on midrange driver angles than playing with cable.

I agree with Tom, it feels good to make your own...even if they aren't made of pure silver. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Adam

 

so all you need is some 12-14 gauge wire and some gold plated contectors????

does it matter what colour the two kinds of wire there are,for (ex) red-red,black-black??

im very interested in this??? i have more then enough time on my hands [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

 

Sassmaster: Your right, shielding is only good if it's taken to ground. But the outside of the RCA connectors is ground, so you just connect ONE side of the shield to the outside of the RCA. I can't recall why you just do one... somthing to do with reflection in the wire and crap.


The odd one: Couple piece of advice if you are building your own

1) Idealy for full range interconnects/speaker cable the best thing to do is use multiple shielded smaller gauge wires (24ga is apparently the best) because with high frequencies you get whats called the skin effect, meaning the electricity flows on the outside of the wires (not down the center) and for the audio range 24ga has the most perfect circumfrence to carry that range of frequencies.

2) When you find your wire that you're going to use, make sure it's not a treated copper. An example would be like in alot of computer cables, the wires are actually silver in color and not copper.


And remember... these are just tips not written in stone rules. If you want to take some 4ga wire and stick some RCA ends on it and use it for interconnects you know what, it will probably work fine. Hell, I'm sure PEI330Ci has tested it! heh

just my 2 bits.

[ May 15, 2004, 09:21 PM: Message edited by: Big Tom ]