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Late to the party with these cables, but I see there's two versions of the above listed cable on Amazon: AV50300EA08 for £6.99 delivered and AV50300bea08 which can be had for one penny! (and £4.59 postage).Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali Tait
As Harry Hill would say, "but which one is best?" ;)
* bump * Anyone?
Also, if anyone's still after a pair of the Belkin AD80300qn2M cables, there's a guy here selling them for the higher price of £11.74 delivered.
I think I've read on this forum that it's better to have longer interconnects than speaker cables (is that right?) and as I'll be shortly getting a pair of monoblocks that they can sit right behind my speakers so these cables look to be a worthwhile purchase.
Regards,
Jon
The two grey cables in your first post are the latest version of the "all white" cable being sold on your ebay link.
Despite umpteen posts between us, we have still yet to determine whether the later "grey" cables are just a cosmetic overhaul of the earlier "white" ones, or they are a complete revision of their materials and layout :scratch:
From what I have read from those who have ended up with the later "grey" variant, everyone seems happy with their purchases so far.
Cool, thanks for that, Frank. I'll order a couple of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Effem
At the price, you can't go wrong Jon. I've got the grey ones, and they're very good, even forgetting what a bargain they are.
Alex got his from Big Offers and they still have:
2.4m pairs of AV50300BEA08 for £2.00
AV50300QP08 at an unspecified length for £3.00
(though I think the 08 at the end means 8ft which is 2.4m)
4.8 metre triple runs of AV51000ea16 for £5.00
4.9 metre pairs of AV50300EA16 for £5.00
This URL gives you all Belkin products that Big Offers sell:
http://www.bigoffers.co.uk/search.ph...earch_dept=all
There's all sorts of other stuff there at those sorts of prices.
Best of all, postage is capped at £4.99 for all orders up to 30kg - I bought so many cables from them that they were delivered in two big boxes & all for a fiver.
OK Belkin make or made 2 different types of cable, the original white ones are 2m and are semi balanced, these then had a cosmetic overhaul and grew 40cm, they are now grey but sound exactly the same as the original white ones, (how do i know this? because i have both types and testd them), however the second cable looked the same as the original but was fully balanced and i think was sold singley and not in pairs, the second cable i think was ment to be a digital cable, probably a spdif.Quote:
Originally Posted by Effem
I noticed the supplied pictures on amazon,the plugs have coloured inserts.The dual sheilded 2.4 m cables are supplied as a pair and have red and blue inserts on the plugs.They are sold as a phoho pair.The quad sheilded cable that is 1.2m long is sold as a single spdif.It has a yellow insert on the plug.The CODE for the yellow one is AV51200ea04.The 04 at the end represents the length in feet.The red and blue pair are very good.In comparison a couple of yellows used as phono interconnects yielded even better results.I have not felt the need to change them since installing them.
Any 1.2m audio pairs available anywhere? I really don't need longer ones..
Well i've put a set of the grey cables onto my Techie SL1800, they're a tight fit but with a little bit of work they fit in quite nicely, i found the best way to keep them looking good is to cut the heads off then use shrink tubing over the woven abrasion jacket, using a heat gun to shrink the tubing tightly over the woven mesh and also melting/burning the unwanted mesh off to leave a neat edge, i used black and red heat tubing for obvious reasons. anyway all was going well making the cables up until i stripped off the conductors, ffs what a mess, each conductor is a different size and shape and all seem to be covered in soft plastic, which require burning off before you can tin them. the cable itself has 2 conductors, one white and one red, these are wrapped in foil and then a woven metal sheath, then comes the soft plastic outer casing, then the abrasion resistent jacket. Anyway i connected each conductor to the PCB tag in the deck and plugged it in.
:(not what i had hoped, there is a load of background hum, so i'm thinking i may need to earth the foil and woven metal sheath, if that doesn't work it's back to the drawing board:scratch: