Shorten your RCA cables to avoid clutter

[sarasin]

I posted a while back on the importance of self made RCA's.

They will last forever!

I fucked up with mine. I did not calculate that i needed 4 points per cable.
So I bought too few RCA points.

I got more last week and made my last 3 cables.

I now have 8. I used the flexible Mic cable and its awesome!

Out of interest, what did you pay for your plug points?

I was offered the ones like you have for R15 each. Thats about $2.

I knew I could better ones for a few extra bucks, so I then found some Amphenol's.

VERY VERY COOL plugs!

http://www.amphenolaudio.com/Amphenol_RCA.html

Got the red and back. Slick!

[Liambo]

Good job mate! You have actually got me wanting to do my own now..

I make cables on a daily basis for my work (electronic engineer) So making cables is a easy task for me.. Might consider doing this in the next few weeks.

[dripstep]

The connectors cost me $1.50 each. They aren't the best, but they do work pretty well. I want to make some really nice cables, but playing with my gear seems to be more important lately. Lol

[sarasin]

Yeah mate, anything is better than those plastic covered rubbish.

Those will do the trick nicely!

I recon the Amphenol's are a step away from Neutrik, which is bordering on audiophile vibes!

[digi16v]

someone should make this a sticky!!!

I have a few odd sizes I need to make myself.

[djproben]

OK So I got as far as clipping the ends off a cable and stripping the wire. Lo and behold, *two*, not one, sleeved wires inside, along with the stranded ground wire. This was a Phoenix cable with RCA plugs on one end and quarter-inch on the other end. I clipped off the quarter inch ends and there are the three wires inside. So is this the wrong kind of cable? Or which of the sleeved wires should I be looking at as the signal wire? (One is red, the other is yellow).

[dripstep]

Its audio, so as long as left on one end is the same wire as left on the other end, you will be fine. Same goes for right. That means you can either take the ground, split it, and have left and right. Makes for a thinner wire, or you can ignore one of the 3 wires, and follow the steps above the same. Take a picture though, it will be easier to help you out.

[djproben]

Ah ok... and I suppose that means I have to clip the other end or I won't know which is which?

[Electros2]

I've been making cables for a while I tend to use more car audio stuff only because I have loads of left overs from my boy racer days works really well and a nice beefy look to it

[elio_xh]

Great post! Really thorough guide. I've made my own ethernet cables before, never audio cables, but I'm planning on doing so next weekend because I bought an s4, and the only thing i dislike are the TRS outputs, so I'm planning on making a TRS-XLR cable for connecting to my speakers. This site has nice diagrams for most audio connections:
http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/co...ck-stereo.html