I always find the aversion to adapters interesting; even if they are of much higher quality than the connectors the cable maker is likely to put on your custom cables.
Keep in mind that all gear has adapters. Inside your gear is bare wire. So does you gear have bare wire to RCA adapters, or does it have bare wire to XLR adapters ??
The only custom cable I ever had was a RCA to BNC digital cable. I got it free with a used CD player that was only BNC for digital. The seller figured he would not be able to resell the cable anyway (which is my point about custom cables).