Truly amazed

[keiths]

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.

Yes - I was going to make one of my long pairs into two shorter pairs until I read this: http://theartofsound.net/forum/showp...&postcount=182

[Jac Hawk]

Yes - I was going to make one of my long pairs into two shorter pairs until I read this: http://theartofsound.net/forum/showp...&postcount=182

If i was you keith i would mount a set of female RCA's on the diecast part of the casing and join those to the small PCB connectin board with some high quality silver wire, that's what i was going to do before i had my brain wave/fart, that way you can use any cables you want, just make sure that you use the best possible wire, solder and RCA connectors, alternatively you could do away with the small PCB mounting board and wire the RCA's direct from the PCB on the arm, on refection that's the way i should have done it

[Welder]

It is doable Kieth, just need to be careful
Cut the outer Teflon wire coating then flame strip the inner conductors, a gas powered soldering iron can be handy for this. Clean the stripped wires carefully with Isopropyl alcohol and if necessary trim away any heated plastic buildup at the base of the stripped wire with a very sharp hobby knife or scalpel.
Feed the ground wires into place first, but solder the centre pin first and then solder the ground and sort out the screen.

[Jac Hawk]

Ok my 1st atempt at using the Pure A/V cables on my TT didn't quite go to plan, there was a massive amount of hum, so after having a closer look at things i decided to put some new RCA plugs back on the belkins, and insted of soldering them to the PCB inside the deck, i routed the 2 cables from the arm to a set of female phono plugs which i screwed to the silver part of the plinth at the rear of the deck which allows me to use any phono leads i wan't.

So got it all finished pluged in the belkins and fired her up, WOW!!!! what a huge difference, stereo image is far better, bass is deep and tight, and the mid and high bands are light and airey, instuments can easily be pinpointed, and all that just by swapping the stock Techie leads, ok it was a bit of a mess on, and i cocked it up on my 1st attempt, but it was well worth it in the end.

[Yoga]

For those interested, the fabled white (AD80300qn2M) cables are back on eBay :¬)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=300553532773

[Alex_UK]

For those interested, the fabled white (AD80300qn2M) cables are back on eBay :¬)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=300553532773

Good spot, Ross.

[Arcamnut]

Found some more for yer fellers http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

[Jac Hawk]

Honnestly guys, i've done a side by side test and there is no difference between the white ones and the grey ones, if they are sold in pairs they are the same cables just the grey ones are a bit longer and in the newer colours, that's it. Now there is a belkin cable that looks the same as the white ones but it is a different construction and it's sold singley and is ment to be a digital cable, i've never tried this cable as a normal analogue interconnector so don't know if it sounds better or worse

[wee tee cee]

The single grey ones have a yellow coloured insert on the plugs.Model number is AV51200ea04.I have 4 of these which I use as 2 stereo pairs.I found in my system they sound better than the grey stereo pairs with the red and blue plug inserts.The 04 at the end of the code is length in feet.The stereo pairs I got were 2.4m or 8 feet in old money.

[WAD62]

Now there is a belkin cable that looks the same as the white ones but it is a different construction and it's sold singley and is ment to be a digital cable, i've never tried this cable as a normal analogue interconnector so don't know if it sounds better or worse

Nor have I...but they are excellent as digital cables, I have 2 (1m) at the moment, thoroughly recommended as digital coax cables