millercarbon2,772 posts01-30-2020 11:24pmI have yet to hear the DIY cable that sounded as good as what you could buy for much less with the money spent on parts alone. Nevermind the time and wasted experiments. Good luck. You'll need it.
Got any ideas on how to build a better NETWORK SPEAKER CABLE?
THIS IS NOT about, what a cable should do, BUT, about what a cable CAN DO.
I've found some interesting ideas and would like to share.
Thanks for the input, I guess I've been a little lucker than most. I've yet to find anything that couldn't have been done a little different, a little better, or BY ME. Cabling is not my profession, but troubleshooting and repairing them WAS for MANY years. The lack of trying has never stopped me from FINDING a cable issue. Someone had to build the cable. I assure you ALL cables are DIY. Some in a basements, some in a store front location MOST in a sweatshop, in central ANYWHERE, (they all have their very own fans to stay cool), or who knows where.
A company in Germany use to make the cabling for very complicated
CANN bus style mobile drilling platforms. The bus had the job of tying
several different processor clusters (nodes and their analog sensors) together and WORK without a hitch, in some VERY VERY harsh conditions. There were 30 + looms with over 50 wires each, GPS, for drilling with NO variation over 100 meters VERTICAL. The MM had to find cable, transducer, sensor, RF, cross sign, and all types of issues that brought that digital system to a dead stop. Just as sensitive as the finest sound system but much harsher environment. And much more complicated than ANY I MEAN any, amp, preamp, speaker, XO, ALL of it combined EVER MADE. Scopes and swearing, and 30 guys standing WAITING, with a $20,000.00 per hour liquidated damage clause.. It's not subjective. It is not experimenting, its measurable, repeatable, and REPAIRABLE. Can't just try a different one, have to built those cables in the field. NO WHERE TO BUY a 100,000.00 dollar special, 6 week wait, CABLE.
The best are always the onesies and twosies. Once upon a time, I was a least a threesie. LOL Productive input is much appreciated. If YOU can't do it, that ok, ask I'll help you out, that's all I can do. It will be as good or better, in workmanship and performance.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Show me your stuff. What I'll do will be as good OR BETTER, if not I'll conceit, to the better builder.
COST
WORKMANSHIP
PERFORMANCE
What I'm looking for is ideas, and personal failures that weren't in vain.
Personal thing that JUST work. Not "It won't work" This DOG can hunt...
I'll commit to builds I can match, or better. If not, no need, to waste the finger power.
Regards