Tweaker's Asylum

Posted by Jon Risch (i) on September 19, 2000 at 17:37:32:

In Reply to: Cable recipe : Simple, cheap, good sound posted by peufeu on September 19, 2000 at 11:11:16:

If this is for speaker cable, all very well and fine IF it is teflon insualted. ChrisVH has posted such a recipe here long ago in the Cables section, see:
http://www.geocities.com/venhaus1/diycatfivecables.html
for his recipe at this web site page.

If this is proposed for an interconnect, the capacitance of just a 1M cable could send many receivers, preamps, CD players, etc, into distortion and/or oscillation due to the huge capacitve load. Somewhere on the order of 1,000 to 1,500 pF per M for such a cable.

Not recommended based on experience with these levels of capacitance in interconnects.

Jon Risch