Re: DIY RCA cable components
Clarification -
All I'm making are the typical single-ended (read: not balanced or differential) RCAs, so I am surprised not to find a hundred - or even ten - threads on this.
I'm a Parts Express fan, I have looked through what they sell - I'm sure I'll be able to find decent cable there, but not finding anything great for barrels there.
Looks are important - Hoping for some good looking short-barrel RCAs... Don't need to be some fancy name brand... and I could modify screw-type to be solder type so no need to suppress those.
Please share your supplier and sources if you have made some...
Or even if you've just "read a thread", if you can share it and link it, no sense reinventing the wheel, right? Was hoping not to need to...
Thanks! :cool:
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i followed shinjohn's how-to, including the same gepco 61801ez cable. i used some pailiccs RCAs because i needed smaller ends resulting in needing some narrow cable to fit the openings
https://pbase.com/shinjohn/diyinterconnects
i did a group buy with some friends for a whole spool of cable and like 200 ends, reduced the price to about $3-4/channel. i still have a lot of ends and cable left over.
i did a version with two channels in a single techflex run, but it made "left side amplifier/right side amplifier" runs not satisfy my OCD. (left channel of stereo rca pair = tweeter, right channel of stereo pair = midrange, etc). also made removing/repairing a single channel issue more difficult.
http://agitated.net/gallery3/var/alb.../IMG_2693.jpeg
this is the single-channel, thinner tech flex. yellow heatshrink notes source-side. glue-lined heatshrink to hold techflex in place. now all the black channels go to the left amplifiers, red channels go to the right amplifiers :)
http://agitated.net/gallery3/var/alb.../IMG_0315.jpeg
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switchcraft 3502 are short as well (not 3502a)
i like the pailiccs ends because they're solid brass, split center pin, and hurricane barrels.
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Thanks!
I know the Neutrik connectors have some legit credibility, I'm just "meh" on their appearance.
Those "streetwires" barrels actually look decent - and I'm soldering, so I can ensure quality... especially for such short runs.
I have seen the Canare quad (or any quad) mic cable as a good one to use - I definitely will read that article. Seen a couple ways to deal with the potentially redundant negative and / or ground and I'm speculating there's probably also an opportunity to simply ground the unconnected (and insulated) shield to operate as a drain.
I saw these - my Civic comes with fake carbon fiber dash trim, so thought this might look cool from a cosmetic angle...
But I can't find these ends.
I can find some other CF-clad ones, but they are like $6/each and don't look as good as these and are longer... I will need 26 so it adds up. $160 for ends isn't terrible compared to buying RCAs, but if I'm making them I want them to not look just "whatever".https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eee50995be.jpg
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i connected the extra shield/foil to the source side as recommended in general.
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nadams5755
i connected the extra shield/foil to the source side as recommended in general.
Source side - as in center pin?
Or do you mean ground side?
I'm surprised if you mean signal, just because with traditional coax cable, ground side travels through the shield.
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shield/foil to common/ground.
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i wanted to shield the center pin, so this meant folding back the shield and ground over the jacket, slide the heatshrink down, and solder the center pin.
heatshrink large enough to fit over the outer jacket (1/8") was too large to shrink over the center pin
tried a tip from another nerd - use a hemostat to stretch out heatshrink over the jacket. solder the center pin, slide down the heatshrink, melt it, solder the ground+shield, profit.
http://agitated.net/gallery3/var/alb...6A2BDCF08.jpeg