Who uses home brew cables?

I've been making my own for many years

I prefer WBT 4% Silver Solder - it's a great performer, especially on delicate tone arm wires.

Best RCA's I've used to date are the Harmony Plug products from KLE Innovations - the Pure Harmony is fantastic at conveying extremely fine details - it also extends the bass and the dynamics are very fast.

Best wire I've used to date for ICis 24 gauge solid silver in Teflon tube and then braided. Braiding acts against RFI and eliminates induced cable noise. With the Pure Harmony RCS's on the ends the results are extremely detailed, dynamic and very spacious

I made my own power cables using the internal conductors from bulk Furutech cables - I remove the outer sleeve and screen and then braid the three conductors. I've found that crimping small plated copper spades to the ends of then wire improves dynamics. I use Sonar Quest silver plated copper IEC/mains connectors from eBay.

Alas, my DIY is now limited to power cables ever since I tried the Essence gZero6 Interconnects and speaker cables - they perform much better than anything I've made or tried to date.

I found trying different cable architectures very enlightening and getting the right one makes a huge difference to performance. For now, braiding is the easiest to execute for a DIYer and provides the very good performance.

That's about it - I've had some great performers and saved a bundle over the years, i.e. compared to what I could have paid for some of the boutique brands, many of which do not live up to their hype

Regards

I recommend "Take Five Audio.com" in Canada. Mr Gene Every, the boss there has made several excellent cables for me using Neotech. He has supplied me with countless "bits and pieces" for my DIY projects. Have a look at his website..

I think you can get pretty good analog performance using your own work on cables, but the 75-ohm digital thing is a lot trickier. I didn't think cable quality matters that much, and for analog I still don't, but the improvement when I went to a higher quality industry-made digital cable for my DAC was unmistakable. Now I'm stuck wondering just how much more $$$ do I need to spend on digital cable before I hit diminishing returns. It's always something......

I think you can get pretty good analog performance using your own work on cables, but the 75-ohm digital thing is a lot trickier. I didn't think cable quality matters that much, and for analog I still don't, but the improvement when I went to a higher quality industry-made digital cable for my DAC was unmistakable. Now I'm stuck wondering just how much more $$$ do I need to spend on digital cable before I hit diminishing returns. It's always something......