DIY Interconnects
truss
Posts: 6
My thanks to the Venom forum; it's a real inspiration. Unfortunately, though I don't think I have this thing hacked yet.
I recently made several attempts with Canare FA-09 RCA's and Canare L-5CFB wire. To prepare for my certain triumph, I set my new interconnects against a pair from "a large discount dept. store." Then, I did an A/B comparison. Friends, don't ever do this when the wife is around. Mine laughed. The darn generic wires sounded better, much better.
So what went wrong? The "other" wires sounded bright and detailed. Mine sounded a bit muffled.
1.) I'm a first-time solderer. The soldering didn't look too bad, but could this be the problem??
2.) I know cables need some warm up time. Could this be it?
3.) I understood that these were rather highly rated items. Are they not?
The only time the DIY's won was when I made one of them the digital coax connection, but the analogs still sounded pretty good. So what do you think?
Also, where can you buy flexwrap? Shrink wrap?
I recently made several attempts with Canare FA-09 RCA's and Canare L-5CFB wire. To prepare for my certain triumph, I set my new interconnects against a pair from "a large discount dept. store." Then, I did an A/B comparison. Friends, don't ever do this when the wife is around. Mine laughed. The darn generic wires sounded better, much better.
So what went wrong? The "other" wires sounded bright and detailed. Mine sounded a bit muffled.
1.) I'm a first-time solderer. The soldering didn't look too bad, but could this be the problem??
2.) I know cables need some warm up time. Could this be it?
3.) I understood that these were rather highly rated items. Are they not?
The only time the DIY's won was when I made one of them the digital coax connection, but the analogs still sounded pretty good. So what do you think?
Also, where can you buy flexwrap? Shrink wrap?
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Sometimes I think the time/work/money involved with DIY interconnects just isn't worth it. by the time you get done, you've saved maybe $5 over a very good manufactured interconnect. I just don't see the appeal....
Power cables are a different story. I think you can build a very good power cable for next to nothing if you shop around. I can't believe the prices some of these esoteric ac cords go for, talk about a fool's paradise....Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2 -
The soldering could be the problem. Don't rely on the solder to be a conductor. Get a good connection and only use the solder to keep it in place.
I've done about 5 different designs of cables so far. Some sound better than others. Some even sound, well...., let's just say I don't have any store bought cables in the 2-ch rig.Make it Funky!
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Just built my first diy interconnect! I looked for wire & all the usual stuff but decided to use what we have in the shop. We build M-1000 component & composite cables for customers & installs & use the monster quick loc m-1000 compression rca's for all the video cables. Built a set of 1m interconnects out of the m1000 composite cables. Hey there are lots of diy sites on line that use silver center conductor, the m1000 use a silver center conductor so lets give it a try! No soldering at all to build this cable. All I have to compare agenst is monster 100's. I Hope that my diy sounds better that the 100's. If I fail try & try again!
