DIY balanced interconnects

Thanks for the responses so far. Thanks to Danmyers for the post on construction (even tho I have no interest in Cardas). I note these instructions say to connect the shield to chassis ground on the source end only, as opposed to Kijanki who recommends the load end only. I still think connecting the chassis grounds to a common (preamp) end would have some merit (and a reason to DIY).
I see 2 votes for Oyaide and as I am intrigued by the possible benfit of single crtstal/OCC cables. The Vampire CCC-II is also a cast Cu cable at half the cost of the Oyaide. I am surprised Kijanki would not consider these to be quailty materials.
Of course the real reason for DIY is $$!
BTY the new cables would be compared to Kimber KCAG cables originally bought as RCA and coverted with Neutriks to balanced as i changed components. I have had these cables at least 12 years.
Also note that I tend to agree with Ralph Of Atmasphere and do not expect to find huge differences.

Kijanki-Maybe when you retire you will become intersted in DIY again! I started audio building Dynakits and have now gone full circle.

Ralph, thaks for the respone and you may have saved me some money. I was going to order the Vampire cable and XLRs from Michael Percy, but I can get no response from him by phone nor email. I can get the Mogami and Neutrik for much less money from Markertek.
The components I want to connect are a BAT VK30 preamp,Pass Labs aleph amp, Cary CD, and theta gen V DAC. I feel pretty confident they all meet fully balanced criteria and probably 600 ohms (if not let me know please).
I assumed to use the braided shield to pin 1,(Thats the way the present KCAG cables are connected as they have no shield), but just to be sure, I guess I should not tie either end to the ground on the XLR cover?
I also will build an AES/EBU cable, do you have a specifc recomendation for the 110 ohm standard?
thanks again!

Thanks to Atmasphere and Tvad for the help.
I also checked my manuals:
The aleph ONO spec is listed at 150/150 ohms which Pass states is low enough to drive most any load.
The cary 303/200 spec is not given in my manual probably beacause the user can change jumpers between 3 or 6 V out or the digital volume control which means the output impedance would vary by choice.
The Theta DSPro Gen 5 spec out is 13 ohms/phase
The BATVK30 balanced input spec is listed at 100Kohms/phase.
The BATVK30 output spec is listed as 750 ohms (differential?)... but I have modified the output caps to 4.33 uF per leg instead of 1uF/leg to make sure I would not lose low freq into the aleph 0s, enen tho V. Khomenko states the 1 uf caps will drive any load over 10K.
The Pass Labs aleph 0s input impedance is specified as 12Kohms differential.
At any rate, I am hoping the technical solution using $69 of parts for 3 XLR pairs and one AES/EBU cable will give me enough satisfaction in my system, to be able to put the well reputed Kimber KCAGs up for sale to someone who might appreciate their characteristics.
thanks again!

ebu