DIY digital I/C

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    T-bone Sanchez

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    Well Ive cut, chopped, soldered Ive used copper, copper with silver plating, various shark cables from maplins ranging from cheapo coax through to their pure silver variety and I have a clear winner by quite a margin;

    At the moment Ive not worked out which parts came from what so part numbers will follow but basically;

    I took a standard 70ohm coax which had a silver plated copper braided screen, stripped the copper conductor out of the centre, threaded 2 lengths of 0.380 99.999% silver down 2 channels NOT the centre were the original conductor was (so the wires dont touch) and used 2 qed phonos I had spare. The silver wires are soldered to the centre pin and the braid was soldered to the outer pin on the phono. I finished it with a braid sleeve and heatshrinked the phonos.

    At first I wasnt sure, it took a couple of days to come on song but now its great. I did some more listening between various cables last night and I was quite taken by how much better it is then anything else Ive tried. Give it a try.
     
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    MartinC Trainee tea boy

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    You mean 75 Ohm I assume? Interesting way to make up a pseudo-balanced cable; you can buy cable like you've constructed, with silver conductors, but it costs more than your efforts I'm sure.
     
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    sorry 75 Ohm. Id say it cost about £5 in total not including the phono's, not bad really.
     
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