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RE: RCA Interconnects on a budget.

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In Reply to: RE: RCA Interconnects on a budget. posted by i am damo suzuki on January 17, 2015 at 14:27:36

I started with Pauls very crude first version that actually was three cables; two positives one for left, one for right and just one ground cable which as ground is common is all that is needed.

I then upgraded to what is now the level one. They were and are excellent. I now have all top of the line silver w/silver Eichmann connectors. I can honestly say the upgrade to top line did help but you'd need very high resolving gear to hear any much less a bigger difference.

My rec is get the $100 ones w/Neutrik RCA's. Get a pair for CDP to pre, a pair for pre to power amp and then replace the shitty cables on the Rega too. This will be kind of a pain and not easy to do. Paul should sell you a pair w/RCA's on one end only for that for a little less. Especially if you order all thee at once. Email him and see. I used that version on my Rabco SL8E tonearm to phono pre and from phono pre to linestage and had no noise.

To me their unshielded design makes them sound much more open and the HF is more real sounding. They image better than any cable I've tried too. They smoked cables costing a lot more that I tried. I was a Kimber dealer amongst others and tried $1K silver cables too.

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RE: RCA Interconnects on a budget. - i am damo suzuki 18:05:46 01/19/15 (1)
Thanks all! This is a very supportive place and your input is much appreciated.
- Blue Jeans & Venhaus silver - Bill Way 10:18:11 01/21/15 (0)
  I tried Blue Jeans ICs for the TV sound in the bedroom, and now use them in my main system if they're the ones closest at hand. There are differences between these and Cardas Quadlink, which is what most of my others are, but those differences aren't all one-sided. At $35 for a 3-foot pair, they are essentially free.
  
  The DIY Venhaus silver IC are between my preamp and power amps, and they're staying. Kinda fun to put together, though you have to come up with a way to protect the fragile 22 AWG silver connection to the RCA plugs - just a little wiggling and they'll need re-soldering. (Several layers of heat-shrink tubing covering the plug and first two inches of IC seems to do it.) I also shielded them with stainless steel braided tubing, connected only at the preamp end.
  
  WW
  "A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922

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