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Title: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: Nick in Edinboro on February 16, 2005, 10:24:23 PM
Did a few searches, found some good leads in these two...  Need some better RCA's between my pre and my amp.

AC Power Cord upgrades: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=18177.30
 DIY Interconnects: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=18044.0

Wonder if theres anything new out there, but not looking to braid cat5 though ;)

Anyone using some home bred cables and care to share?
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: Daryan on February 17, 2005, 10:49:30 PM
Why bother with the price of these...


http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?cablintr&1113693071

You can borrow mine if you would like to try them, I am not using mine at the moment.

edit:  If you are set on DIY, the silver venhaus recipe is always well reviewed.

Daryan
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: ducati on February 18, 2005, 07:30:53 AM
Also check out Signal Cable.  I sold some hifi to the guy who runs that operation, and he's really pleased with the sound of his cables--and they're cheap.  I still haven't tried one  :-[

I always used to use Kimber PBJ.  You can find those cheap on a'gon.
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: BobW on February 20, 2005, 11:30:44 AM
Anyone ever use this guy ?
Vampire Wire (http://vampirewire.com/mcart/)

I got the URL from Doc Bottlehead
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: Lil Kim Jong-Il on February 20, 2005, 12:23:41 PM
I have a pair of vampire type IV silver/OFC ICs.

You are welcome to borrow them if you want to try them in your system
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: BobW on February 21, 2005, 11:00:27 AM
Quote from: El Barto on February 20, 2005, 12:23:41 PM
I have a pair of vampire type IV silver/OFC ICs.

You are welcome to borrow them if you want to try them in your system

What do you think of them ?
Title: Re: What is the latest and greatest in DIY interconnects these days?
Post by: Lil Kim Jong-Il on February 21, 2005, 03:12:19 PM
They are very clean.  Not warm like the cardas but not strident like some silverplated copper is reported to be.  They are slightly brighter that the MIT shotguns I have but not in a bad way.  I never noticed that they had an effect on the soundstage.  Just clean signal transfer.

My problem with analyzing wire is that I bought different wires to play around with, so I have some nice ones but different manufactures.  Swapping means tweaking just one link in the chain and not all links at once.  So I can't comment that Vampire Wire has some signature sound the way I hear the MIT wire, where I have enough to cover the entire path.