I came across Jon Risch's DIY speaker cable recipes: link
Anyone tried the coaxial or Cat5 recipes? The coaxial one looks especially interesting, it's too bad the recommended Belden coax is tough to find for cheap.
I think these solutions might be a little too much (effort/time/risk) for me. Anyone know where I can get good wire for cheap?
I'm looking for something along the lines of a teflon jacketed 14~18 gauge bare copper conductor (a high strand count would be nice, but I could deal with solid wire if I had to). Hookup wire seems to be along those lines. I don't care if the wire isn't parallel bonded, in fact I think I'd prefer wire that isn't.
Related: anyone have any recommendations for 1/4" mono (TS) audio cables? These from monoprice.com look promising: link
Often I think I'm obsessing over a detail that doesn't matter much...
Thanks!
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Written May 28 2009 , Tags: speaker, cable, wire, jon risch
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its lots of work. i've done.
sounds just as good as a coat hanger. Yeah, I figured. I can't imagine the speaker cable would matter much over a distance of less than 6 feet... I don't know why I'm stuck on this issue.
cuz you have free time?
my current cables are made from belden i hear coat hangers work really well and are fairly "dance-able"
lol coat hangers add analog warmth
I GOT MY AMP TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got a Hafler TA1600 to go with a pair of Event 20/20s I picked up for cheap. Everything sounds, works great. Oh wow, I just noticed that the left channel hums when my coffee maker turns on, I guess I need a power conditioner? I'm noticing different details in my mixes... I seem to notice that I'm using noisy samples a little more. The stereo imaging is remarkably good! My first set of monitors, so I have nothing to really compare them to, but I'm happy and that's what counts. At my work we're selling 50ft lengths of 14 gauge zip cord for $8. Currently I have ~18 gauge zip cord that the guy who sold me the monitors gave me for free. I think I'll risk the $8, do an A/B test and if I can't tell the difference I'll forget about the whole issue. better then a power conditioner is an online UPS so u are running from pure sinewave output (battery) at all times
Yes, I will obsess about the clean power issue now. Great.
I bet I could get a cheap UPS from a liquidator on ebay... Lots of businesses closed recently so there's cheap business supplies around.
I picked up a Cherry G80-8113 computer keyboard recently for $40 shipped, which is amazing considering that it's about $300 new. oooohhhh.... Love those meters. That's attention to detail. There's love in that power conditioner. A rackmount version would look real nice on top of my amp.
Reminds me of the power supplies for the projectors in the movie theatre I was a projectionist. Except this one isn't 5 feet tall with 24 circuit breakers on the front (the xenon bulbs needed 60 amps!). haha. 60amps.
i loled at 60 amps too
its alot of juice!
Yeah, I think it was around 6-7kW for the bulb in the largest theatre. The engineer said that the sound system was 10kW. That's a whole lot of juice. I have no idea what the electricity bill must look like at the end of the month.
When I trained how to change a bulb, there's a stage of the process when I opened up the lamp house and had a lit bulb right in front of me (while I was aligning the bulb). The thing is hot. It melts film at 3 feet just from the light it emits. And you can't look right at it (obviously). The guy that was training me stood 30 feet away in the booth and shouted directions to me while I was wearing boots, a protective jacket, gloves and face shield. Needless to say I was somewhat alarmed by his cautious attitude, but it went OK. I was only trained for an emergency, and thankfully I never had to change a bulb without instruction. Since Regal Cinemas had stopped using union labor I was getting $9/hr for that shit! I make more than that as a cashier and I'm not running the risk of being electrocuted, or having a searing hot pressurized glass bulb explode on me. Still, it was fun and there's a bunch of cool equipment involved. Signup to comment
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