You can use any cables you'd like, but you do have to use their connectors. Strip off about 1/4" of insulator off the end of the cable, slide the bare wire up through one of the holes in the right-angled barrel connector, then tighten the set screw at the back of the connector with a very small screwdriver. Slide the plastic sleeve over the barrel connector and you're ready to plug into the Classik.