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In Reply to: Assembled my first channel posted by asull2k on July 26, 2001 at 01:12:03:
That's insane. I just finished my braiding last night. Started with 6ft, ended up just under 4.5ft. I can't wait to hear the difference. I'm replacing some old 16 gauge zip cord, so it should be very noticeable. Now I just have to order all of the finishing touches. My new Yamaha receiver will only take bananas, so I now have to research what to get for that end. I had planned on using PostMasters all around, but oh well.
Follow Ups:
I finished my cables about a week ago. I too have a Yamaha reciever(RXV 1000). I thought that there may be a problem with capacitance, but so far no problem what soever. however I have not cranked it up for any extended periods of time. My cables are 11' (started with 13' lengths) terminated with "Dayton" banana plugs from "parts express" (not bad).These cables are definitely worth the effort! The mids and highs are so much more defined, I can here the space around the instruments. The bass is much tighter too, although not as pronounced. This may be because my old cables were 10 or 12 gage bi wire from Monster. I doulbled the up because my new speakers were not bi wireable (pretty fat). In comparison they sound boring and muddy. I am realy suprised with impact these cables had on the overall sound of my system(My wife too, and that's telling you something). It almost sound as though I upgraded my speakers!
enjoy!
Does anyone know if there is any avantage between using the Techflex "PET" "FR", or "CC". Is this purely cosmetic?
Hi,The 3 are pretty much the same. PET is the basic type, FR has flame retardant added to the plastic, the melting point remains the same, however. CC (cleancut) is PET that has been rendered less prone to fraying by a process that would be like perma-press is to pants. The sizes are a bit different for CC, here is the link for info
Kind regards,
Ray
Hi trancemitr,I would suggest trying some Ixos bananas (their top of the line ones).. my roommate is using them in his system and they are by far the tightest bananas I've ever seen. I normally wouldn't recommend them because most people probably can't even push them in, but after the braiding I bet your hand strength and durability exceeds that of most people :) The way they're designed keeps the wires screwed in very tight (the screw is at the base, near the plug), while my Phoenix Gold bananas loosen the wire sometimes when I plug them in (the screw is at the top of the banana, so twisting the banana sometimes makes the wire fall out of the plug!). Also, I plan on ordering a smaller size of Techflex.. I think the 1/2" will be a slightly better fit, although the 3/4" works pretty well too.
--Alan
I started with 14 ft runs of the cat5 which braided down to 13, 12, and finally 11 ft with each successive braid. I terminated with post master spades and esoteric audio bananas from parts express. I then covered with violet 3/4" B2 heatshrink and 1/2" B2 for the leadouts. I covered that with 3/8" slate blue PET techflex and 1/4" for the leadouts. Finally for all the strain relief and holding the techflex in place I used 1/2" O2B2 in red and black and 3/4" O2B2 in black. The only problem I encountered was that the 1/2" O2B2 holding the techflex near the bananas was a little tight going on. But I have to say every thing looks and sounds amazing.Hope this helps,
Jessie
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