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jsrobbins

High quality stereo cables

To Jim Brown,

Thanks for the recommendations about brand name coax and coax connectors.

Can you recommend brands and/or vendors for "stereo cables" with similar "high quality" construction? Would be a great help. Many thanks.

73,
Jim
N1JR
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Dave Hachadorian-2

Re: High quality stereo cables

Well, I'm not Jim Brown, but since you asked in a public forum,
I'll throw in my two cents.

I buy all my A/V cables from monoprice.com

Their standard cables are very good, and are the way to go if
flexibility is required. Their premium cables are thick and
rugged, and are a better choice for applications that don't
require frequent movement. Here are some Monoprice 3.5 mm stereo
cables:
http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=102&cp_id=10218

As you can see, prices are very reasonable.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: James Robbins
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:34 AM
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Subject: [Elecraft] High quality stereo cables

To Jim Brown,

Thanks for the recommendations about brand name coax and coax
connectors.

Can you recommend brands and/or vendors for "stereo cables" with
similar "high quality" construction? Would be a great help.
Many thanks.

73,
Jim
N1JR
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Rick Dettinger-3

Re: High quality stereo cables

We could make this thread on topic by using this cable for our KX1's. .... ..

73,
Rick Dettinger K7MW

On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:

> Well, I'm not Jim Brown, but since you asked in a public forum,
> I'll throw in my two cents.
>
> I buy all my A/V cables from monoprice.com
>
> Their standard cables are very good, and are the way to go if
> flexibility is required. Their premium cables are thick and
> rugged, and are a better choice for applications that don't
> require frequent movement. Here are some Monoprice 3.5 mm stereo
> cables:
> http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=102&cp_id=10218
>
> As you can see, prices are very reasonable.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: James Robbins
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:34 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] High quality stereo cables
>
> To Jim Brown,
>
> Thanks for the recommendations about brand name coax and coax
> connectors.
>
> Can you recommend brands and/or vendors for "stereo cables" with
> similar "high quality" construction? Would be a great help.
> Many thanks.
>
> 73,
> Jim
> N1JR
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Jim Brown-10

Re: High quality stereo cables

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On 1/23/2014 5:34 AM, James Robbins wrote:
> Can you recommend brands and/or vendors for "stereo cables" with similar "high quality" construction?

No. There are companies who sell cables at VERY inflated prices, but
that rarely correlates with quality. For example, most vendors of
esoteric cables one who does the most advertising, sells glorified zip
cord as "speaker cable." Zip cord is well known to CAUSE RF
interference to audio systems.

Audio cables are very easy to make. The Power Point slides on my website
list part numbers for good quality audio connectors and a good vendor to
buy them from. RG58 and miniature coax (like RG174) make excellent audio
cable.

73, Jim K9YC
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Dave Hachadorian-2

Re: High quality stereo cables

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At K9YC's suggestion, I just cut open one of Monoprice's standard
3.5 mm stereo extension cables. Actually, it doesn't look so
hot. There are just three individual, plastic-insulated,
parallel, non-twisted wires inside the jacket - tip, ring, and
shell. There is no shield. I haven't had any flaky connection
issues, RFI or hum though.

I don't have one of their "premium" cables to cut up, but if you
look at them closely on the web site they are made from two
individual cables, labeled "RG-59/U coaxial cable 75 ohm." This
one for example:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?ab3=b&utm_expid=58369800-11.KFcpHWqASSutMqNPOqaJVg.1&c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021812&p_id=5580&seq=1&format=2&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monoprice.com%2FCategory%3Fc_id%3D102%26cp_id%3D10218

I do know that those premium cables are bulky though, and the
connectors are rather large, so they may physically block an
adjacent jack.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:01 AM
To: Dave Hachadorian
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] High quality stereo cables

On 1/23/2014 6:37 AM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
> I buy all my A/V cables from monoprice.com

Dave,

Have you cut them open and looked at the cable?

73, Jim K9YC

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Edward R Cole

Re: High quality stereo cables

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Not sure how they stack up on the "quality" scale but I have had good
luck using 1m stereo cables from RS. I've not seen RFI sensitivity
and no failures in continuity. I recently retired some "cheap"
computer speakers in favor of West Mountain COMspkr's and needed a
speaker cable from my KX3 to a four input audio switch which allows
the speakers to be shared. I cut off the computer line from the old
computer speaker and found it was shielded cable. That's kind of
interesting since the speakers were susceptible to RFI. The COMspkr's are not.

I also recently made up a patch cord for my TNC to connect to a "new
to me" FT-2400 2m radio. I had to cut up a DB9 cable as I had no
male DB-male connectors and too cheap to drive 25mi to RS for
one. The DB9 was 9-conductor with shield which was a nice
surprise. This connected to a peice of cat-5e terminated in RJ45 to
insert in the Mic and a shielded 2-conductor cable to the speaker
(mini-phone stereo connector). No RFI issues seen with this new
interface cable.

I have had experiences with some of the "commercial" cable makers
with mixed reviews. I bought made-up RG-223 cables for repeater
jumpers which were better than I could assemble. Duplexers offered
150 dB isolation so one did not want to destroy that with leaky
cables. These were commercial VHF and UHF repeaters, so the firm was
willing to pay the price for high quality.

73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
"Kits made by KL7UW"
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Pete Smith N4ZR

Re: High quality stereo cables

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Amazing prices, particularly when I just returned from Radio Shack.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 1/23/2014 9:37 AM, Dave Hachadorian wrote: