good info thank you.
My friend thinks I should just buy the tool and attempt to sell some cables on the side as well as be set for the rest of my lifetime with my own cables...
*shrugs* undecided still
Thanks to everyone responding on this, I'm kind of surprised this has not generated more feedback.
I was kind of hoping to get some info back on test results of peoples home made cables.
Plus Chuck really has my interest peaked on his comment that source box's seldom put out a true 75 ohm to begin with.
I'm going to try and get with my friend sometime in the future and do a test off the V3 to check if it outputs a true 75 ohm signal from it's connector and than test a store bought cable and see if it is putting out a true 75 ohm signal from the v3 (or whatever the v3 reports)
What I was getting at is...
Copper traces on a PC board don't have the *proper* impedance characteristics that a cable or connector does.
It's all very nice, in theory, but RCA connectors were never meant to be used as 75 ohm connectors. After you realize that, you do what you can, with what you have, and it all turns out fine anyway. I use 75 ohm wire, and any connector that fits what I need to connect it too.
A good example...
The Oade 7 Pin adaptor for the D-8. There is no 75 ohm connector or 75 ohm wire in that thing. But, it passes digital signal just fine.