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wiggy924

Guys,

Looking for some good quality female connectors to connect two
pairs of RCA cables together. Each cable has it's strengths and
together they're impressive. Used some cheap connectors from a
portable DVD player to see if it worked and like what I heard.

Thanks,

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RE: RCA Female connectors - Duster 11:42:37 05/28/12 (7)
Do you mean a pair of rca couplers like these?
- RE: RCA Female connectors - wiggy924 11:49:27 05/28/12 (6)
  Duster,
  
  Those are the ones! Just found some on another AA website and are
  cheap.
  
  Thanks,
  - RE: RCA Female connectors - Duster 11:55:16 05/28/12 (5)
    $11.98 including free shipping for a set of two is about as good as it gets.
    
    See link:
    - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/AudioQuest+-+RCA-to-RCA+Connecto (Open in New Window)
    - RE: RCA Female connectors - wiggy924 11:57:59 05/28/12 (4)
      Thanks for the excellent find. Ordering now
      - RE: RCA Female connectors - cfraser 12:04:56 05/28/12 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: RCA Female connectors posted by wiggy924 on May 28, 2012 at 11:57:59
        
        Ah, so "good quality" is not really required after all? Cheap is more important. Fair enough.
        
        RE: RCA Female connectors - wiggy924 13:04:47 05/28/12 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: RCA Female connectors posted by cfraser on May 28, 2012 at 12:04:56
        
        I was expecting them to be $90-100 and ended up being $11. I guess the quality is good since they are made by a good manufacturer...
        
        RE: RCA Female connectors - Duster 14:52:03 05/28/12 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: RCA Female connectors posted by wiggy924 on May 28, 2012 at 13:04:47
        
        Since adapters in general, and especially an avoidable line-level adapter like that tend to be an audiophile no-no, the notion of great rca coupler is a bit of an oxymoron. A decent rca coupler features a one piece milled body for ground and a Teflon dielectric. A cheap rca coupler tends to feature a plastic body with stamped ground shrouds and a polyethylene or even an epoxy based dielectric. Opting for a "less sonic degrading" product is all one should expect from any adapter.
        
        RE: RCA Female connectors - wiggy924 20:13:12 05/28/12 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: RCA Female connectors posted by Duster on May 28, 2012 at 14:52:03
        
        Duster,
        
        I'll see if I can discern any difference between my current ones and the audioquest adapters I have coming soon.
RE: RCA Female connectors - cfraser 10:13:09 05/28/12 (0)
I don't know if there are any. Assuming you mean those small female-female joiner gizmos. Hell, I couldn't even find a decent cable-mounted female RCA, the ones out there are not very impressive. If you really care that much, I suggest just soldering together two quality RCA jacks.
I asked a similar question a couple years ago, but in my case I was willing to chop one end of the cables to be joined, so a cable-mounted jack was acceptable too. Still nada IIRC. I used Vampire inline jacks, but they are by far the lowest-quality Vampire product I've ever seen and I wouldn't use them again. However, they are gold-plated and cheap enough I guess; you could make your own joiners that are *possibly* better than those pre-made F-F joiner/adapters.

Edits: 05/28/12

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