Brendo09 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 I peeled apart an RG6 RGB cable from my dead dvd player, and tried them as audio connects. They worked well. Is there any issues using RG6 double or quad shielded cables for audio interconnects for lengths of under 2m? Previously I was using the thin RCA cables (cheap ones), but on the face of it, this seemed an upgrade. I'll also add that despite the sonic benefits (real or believed to be real) I'm not interested in paying much more than $25 for a set of interconnects. Call me cheap. So is the RG6 cable limiting me? 1
Zaphod Beeblebrox Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 No. RG6 will work just fine. My only concern is that some types of RG6 use copper clad steel centre conductors and aluminium shielding. This can make soldering challenging. All copper types should be fine. OK, you're cheap. So am I. 1
Brendo09 Posted July 4, 2014 Author Posted July 4, 2014 Sweet. I won't be doing any of the soldering, so I'm going to assume that they'll be fine if I buy 2 lots of 1m RGB cables. It's cheaper to do that, split them, and then you have 3 pairs, just the colour coding is off.
surprisetech Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 The different colour coding can actually be handy when you're tracing cable connections later on.
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