kininigin
11-11-2009, 13:46
I have recently changed my speakers to actives and have been interested in knowing if having a better mains cable would make them sound better.
Being tight fisted as i am i didn't want to spend £30-40 on two cables to find out,so i thought i'd try a bit of diy.Now here's where the problem starts.
I bought some cable of a guy from ebay who rewired his house with some
Shielded cable for dedicated mains hi-fi super spur.It has 6mm2 conductors and is 13mm in diameter at £6.50 pm(i bought 3m) also it is a twisted design and sheilded.It's 4 core which allows you to double the Earth cabling(his words).
Now my problem is the cable has 4 cores,3 of which are black and are numbered 1,2,3 the other is the earth cable and in the middle is a thin white cable(drain wire?) and i have absolutly no idea how to wire this up to a plug or iec connector.The guy selling it says he made some power cables out of it so i presume it can be done,so any help would be welcomed as i don't want to do any damage to my speakers or start a fire.
Why didn't i spend a few extra quid on some belden:doh:
p.s. this is the cablr make-liycy JZ0.
Being tight fisted as i am i didn't want to spend £30-40 on two cables to find out,so i thought i'd try a bit of diy.Now here's where the problem starts.
I bought some cable of a guy from ebay who rewired his house with some
Shielded cable for dedicated mains hi-fi super spur.It has 6mm2 conductors and is 13mm in diameter at £6.50 pm(i bought 3m) also it is a twisted design and sheilded.It's 4 core which allows you to double the Earth cabling(his words).
Now my problem is the cable has 4 cores,3 of which are black and are numbered 1,2,3 the other is the earth cable and in the middle is a thin white cable(drain wire?) and i have absolutly no idea how to wire this up to a plug or iec connector.The guy selling it says he made some power cables out of it so i presume it can be done,so any help would be welcomed as i don't want to do any damage to my speakers or start a fire.
Why didn't i spend a few extra quid on some belden:doh:
p.s. this is the cablr make-liycy JZ0.