The Cable Co

@sns , good for you! DIY is the way to go with cables. The best cable is the shortest one and you never get the shortest one with commercial cables. There is first class wire and connectors available, as good as or better than what is being used commercially. The only thing missing is the fancy sheath and the slick marketing. 

Service a The Cable Company is excellent but, there is also excellent service elsewhere. Upscale Audio, Elusive Disc and Galen Carol are companies that also stand out in my experience. 

Just a point of clarification: the Cable Company charges a deposit fee of 5% (not 10%) when borrowing cables from their lending library. This deposit is not refundable but can be applied to the purchase of any cable or non-cable products.

My long-term contact at the CC (Jason) no longer works for them, and I have not purchased any cables from them since Jason left.

@sdl4 -

     Thanks for the correction.

     It’s been a minute, since my last cable purchase.

The notion of paying $600 for a cable when I can find it used for $250...no customer service can beat that.

@hilde45 Bingo!!! Used cables are readily available, easy and cheap to ship, are pretty much assured to be trouble free, and they’re easy to resell if they don’t work for you at little/no loss if you buy at a good price. Unless you can’t find the cable you’re looking for used or are hell-bent on buying new cables at a huge markup, buying used cables is one of the best bargains in audio IMHO. Before the fluid, internet-driven used cable market the Cable Co. made a lot of sense — I even used them once back in the 90’s — but now they’re pretty much a dinosaur unless you like throwing away $$$. Just my $0.02 FWIW.

I have had nothing but high praise for them and have purchased 3 used cables from them that look brand new. No complaints here.