If you are ordering Kabledirekt from Amazon, please be careful. I ordered a mini-to-RCA adaptor to use my audio player in the car and it arrived crushed and bent, and the interior packaging was ripped up. Amazon creditied me with the purchase price, but I doubt I would order more cables from Kabledirekt.
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I have all my cables custom made by Amplifier_Surgery. They are on eBay and supply cables in the $30 to $100 range that compete favorably with $500 cables. By the way the cable business is the biggest racket going in the audio business. However be careful of imported cables. Some are good and some have really inferior connectors. With RCA cables the quality of the connectors and the shielding is critical. |
Anybody try this Audtek speaker wire: https://www.parts-express.com/audtek-electronics-skrl-10-100-10-awg-ofc-speaker-wire-100-ft--100-029 I think it was called Dayton before?? @auxinput that is really interesting - does the same hold true with a certain gauge speaker wire? Which RCA's are 20 AWG? @bondmanp That must have been a fluke - I've ordered a lot of those cables from Amazon (they're so cheap!) and never had an issue. |
@leemaze - I don't know if there is a solid-core 20awg RCA cable. Best I can tell, the Audioquest cables are all 22awg solid-core. I have not done a lot of research, but there could be some cables. For example, the Audio Sensibiilty Signature cables use a combination of 20/22/24 awg solid-core silver, but you are looking at $600 plus for an interconnect. All my testing has been done from both interconnect and power cables I have built myself. I have a power cord that uses 6 x 22awg conductors for each leg (making a 14.5 awg cable). I also have another power cord that uses 3 x 20awg conductors for each leg (15.5 awg power cord). Even though the 3x20awg cord has 20% less metal conductor, the bass power and slam is so much more. On the other hand, the 6x22awg power cord has extraordinary amounts of detail and clarity in the mids and highs. However, it is rather thin because there isn't much bass power. The Audioquest power cords appear to use 19awg conductors for hot and 21awg for neutral/ground, which is a great balance between low and high detail. The Audioquest speaker cable also uses multiple gages. The rocket 44 uses 17/18/20/21 awg conductors for difference ranges of frequency. I have used the standard 12awg OFC stranded speaker wire for the longest time. I recently upgraded to a Neotech NES-3002, which is 9awg that uses all 22awg solid-core conductors. It is amazing, but I suppose the Audioquest with larger conductors can be very powerful in bass as well. |
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