What are the best DIY cables you've heard?

If possible please leave a reference or pointer to the cable recipe for the benefit of other members. Thanks in advance for your comments.

agonanon03-06-2003 5:35am

Showing 5 responses by twl

twl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,251 posts 03-06-2003 at 07:32pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My DIY recipe is what Lugnut described above.
twl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,251 posts 03-06-2003 at 06:42pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Yes, I tried the Chris Ven Haus design. I found some things that I didn't like about it, so I did some changes based on some other ideas I had. So when I got it the way I liked it, I sent a pair to Lugnut, and also to Macrojack. They both liked them. The Ven Haus design is a good basic starting point.
twl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,251 posts 03-06-2003 at 07:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Actually, a good ending point would be some Purist Dominus or Venustus. I have settled on Sonoran Plateau for the time being. They were the first affordable cable that I found that could beat my DIY. About $1400 for IC and speaker cables. That's not cheap, but they do sound better. But my DIY were only about $35 for both the IC's and the speaker cables.
twl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,251 posts 03-07-2003 at 01:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Agonanon, I did not try thinner guages of wire, only the 30ga. I did not use silver wire because I don't have any high freq rolloff problems, and don't need any extra "zing" in my response. Silver wire always seems to be "hot" on the high freq.
twl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,251 posts 03-09-2003 at 12:39am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Just DIY interconnect cables would be fine with me. No ego to stroke here.

More to discover