Good budget phono cables

[aquapiranha]

Simon, I bought 4M of the Klotz cable, it cost me £11.22 from Studiospares. I am using Neutrik because they are good quality well made connectors. The reason they have an XLR at one end and RCA at the other is because the active x-over I will be using can handle balanced and single ended connections, but only via an XLR, so the connection will not be 'balanced' in the true sense of the word. I will lose a few db in signal strength but that should not be an issue I hope.

[Spectral Morn]

You would connect things up as Alb described. This gives you a some diagrams to study.

You would require 2 lengths of cable per stereo metre pair - costing works out at a bit less than £12 per stereo metre pair.

Chris

Great advice from a great company Atlas. I use their cables and I know John Carrick quite well. Does that make me biased...I would say No. The cables I use I paid for and they clearly sounded better than what I was already using.


Regards D S D L

[Peter Galbavy]

For what it's worth, I use Maplin's cheap but not nasty ready made photo cables:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35898

£10 for the 0.75m is more than I remember they used to be, but they do the job are very flexible and bendy and seem fine for my level of usage

[Stratmangler]

For what it's worth, I use Maplin's cheap but not nasty ready made photo cables:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=35898

£10 for the 0.75m is more than I remember they used to be, but they do the job are very flexible and bendy and seem fine for my level of usage

Hi Peter

Tried 'em meself a while back - my homebrewed jobbies are substantially better IME, and they cost around £12 per stereo metre (in parts), plus the time it takes to strip back and solder 'em together.

Chris

[Themis]

I get HQ cables from Cable Mountain which are very good indeed (sound and construction quality) :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metre-3-5mm-...818571&sr=1-10

£4.15 for 2m
I have plenty of them.

[HighFidelityGuy]

I'd recommend Mark Grant's cables or if you'd prefer to spend a bit less I'd take Mike Homar up on his offer. His cables have received excellent reviews from AoS members. He won't be making any money on that £5 either as he only uses good quality parts.

[Themis]

if you'd prefer to spend a bit less I'd take Mike Homar up on his offer. His cables have received excellent reviews from AoS members. He won't be making any money on that £5 either as he only uses good quality parts.

Sounds like an excellent idea !!!

[sburrell]

Hi everyone,

Sorry that I haven't responded sooner. My laptop went in for repair taking my Art Of Sound password with it.

I should also apologise because my focus has changed since I rejigged my hifi into one room. I've decided the most important thing to change right now is my loudspeakers. I'm going to put the tenner I'd have spent on cables into a pair of loudspeakers (with stands if bookshelf-type) instead (boy, I can't believe I said that—but funds are really tight!).

However, I'll refer back to this thread in the future when I can afford to invest in new interconnects.

Thanks to everyone who responded!

[Rare Bird]

I'm not a believer is Mega buck fancy cables at all.I've had some very expensive Interconnects & some cheaper, the cheaper win everytime..I've actually just junked a set of expensive Nordost Interconnects over a pretty cheap set of Chrord 'Crimson', these won't break the bank & are very good for the small outlay.Extremely flexible, ok the plugs won't win any awards but the cable certainly did.You can pick these up used for peanuts.

http://www.chord.co.uk/chordweb/crimson.htm

Chord are living proof that you don't need to fork out for acceptable quality

[Marco]

Andre, how much are the Crimsons? These days I use Mark Grant cables:

http://markgrantcables.co.uk/shop/in...&products_id=1

For £20 it's hardly worth bothering making your own! They're also superb and outperform many so-called 'high-end' designs at many times the price

Marco.

P.S Mark's a member of the forum. If you're ever looking for some cables, I'd thoroughly recommend his stuff.