high quality rca's

Any one have any suggestions for some high quality rca's?   Here is the problem... I have tried this with meny diffrent amps and head units so equipment is not the issue.   When I run 1 set of rca's and use a y splitter to my 4 channel...no noise....When I run front and rear rca's to the amp..noise..nothing major, but none the less enough to annoy me.    Also does anyone have any experience working with noise floor for sq?   I am thinking that my little 2 volt deck just is making me set my gains way to high, if anyone can offer suggestions that would be great2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR

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WHy are you using a "Y" splitter? Does your deck not output both a left and right channel for both front and rear? I have used Y splitters before. They usually lead to excess noise. First of all, the signal is being split into two. That right there will degrade the signal. Also, when you plug the female end of the Y into the RCA coming from the Deck, that connection usually allows excessive distortion.

Is the noise coming from both sets when connected or just one? I had this happen on my hu. It turned out to be aground issue in the hu for the rca's.

Well for high quality rca's you could use zero noise 6 cables from street wires. Its about as high end as I know without going into esotaric or timbre cables and what not. Can I mabye suggest going to an external preamp like a audiocontrol 3.1 or something similar to boost your preout voltage. The only problem is that if the noise is indeed starting at the deck, boosting the voltage is only going to boost the noise as well, but that is definatly a strange problem.double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer

I agree with furflier it sounds like you have a pre-amp issue in your HU, probably a bad ground plane on the outputs.  For an SQ setup, I'd replace the HU ASAP and definately not use Y-cables.  As far as what brand of RCA cable to use, any of the mainstream brands perform pretty much the same in my measurements.Support the12volt.com