Trevor Wilson coughed up:
"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

Well, I checked that at RS, and they have no way to do it, and I'm
in the middle of nowhere, so It'll have to be internet.

Check again, though the RCA plugs that fit coax require quite a bit
of soldering for a good connection. RS does sell them.

Contrary to popular mythology, the best connectors are metal to like
metal. Plain tin plugs in a plain tin jack will work as well as
anything. Monster cables may look cute, but they don't work any
better than soldering iron specials that only cost a few pennies.

The mark-up on cables is even worse than the 300% mark-up on jewelry.

**Really? Examples? Evidence?

BTW: I retail cables. I make the most profit margin from the cheapest
cables. Some of my competitors mark up cheap cables to levels which
approach absurdity. I had rectify a bunch of faults in an extremely
complex AV system a few years ago. All the faults were caused by the
installer's use of VERY cheap, crappy cables, which had been
manufactured to LOOK like expensive cables. I buy those cables (more
correctly: I CAN buy those cables) for about AUS$1.60/1 Metre pair. I
don't buy them, because they're carp. They sound like crap (in good
systems), they exhibit high levels of capacitance, have poor
shielding and are very poorly terminated. My client showed me his
invoice. He had been charged AUS$167.00 for those cables! I replaced
them with moderately high grade cables, which I charged out at
AUS$40.00 each. I pay $22.00 for those cables. The REALLY exotic
cables I sell provide me with around 30% profit margin.


I don't think this speaks to the manufacturers markup. When he (larry
caldwell, laurence paine?) was referring to markup, I took that to mean the
profit differences from a manufacturer's cost to his wholesale price. After
all, he *was* talking about the *construction* cost of cables, not the
*resale* cost of cables.



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