On 28 Feb 2004 19:21:17 GMT, "Uptown Audio"
wrote:

snip cautionary tale of the true cost of DIY cables

No matter what you
decide to do to arrive at your own cables, you are the one who has to
use them, no one else's opinion matters at any fraction of the speed
of light. So buy your solder and practice 'till 4AM each night for a
week or buy your cables. No one here will be effected but you.

While all the above is true, it's worth remembering that once you have
your soldering station and your silver-loaded solder, and once you've
built up your soldering skills (it's not all that hard in reality -
even MIL-spec training with HP at at China Lake only takes two weeks),
then you can buy 100 metres of studio grade microphone cable, 100
metres of 12AWG 'zipcord', a bag or two of Deltron or Neutrik
connectors, and make all the precision interconnects and speaker
cables you'll ever need. They'll be as good as anyhting you can buy,
and made to the exact length you need every time.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering