signal cable

I am about to install a 5 channel amp in my trunk. I will be running signal for 4 separate channels plus the sub from my receiver.

I am thinking of using video component cable as,to me, they appear to be high quality RCA's.

Any comments would be appreciated.

I have searched the topic thanks.

Regards

EJ

all rca wires are the same. If you get oxygen free and ones that have emi shield, the chances of getting engine noise are close to none.

aw crap, cant edit post, well also, be sure to run the wires on the opposite side of you amp power cable

Go to Radio Shack, and buy the cheapest cable you can lay your hands on, and install 'em wherever the hell you want. I say that like that, because there is NOTHING to impress upon me that an "oxygen free" cable or any other kind of cable is any better than any other cable, AND that installing your RCAs wrapped together with your power cable the entire length of the run WON'T, as in CAN NOT get any more noise than running your cables on the other sidfe of the car. We've actually disproven that theory many times here...

tedmond wrote: all rca wires are the same. If you get oxygen free and ones that have emi shield, the chances of getting engine noise are close to none.

If they are all the same, then why suggest spending more on them than is necessary? BTW, the shield (and that's EVERY shield) IS an EMI shield... You either get an EMI shield or you don't. An RCA cable without an EMI shield of SOME sort, is called a "w-i-r-e".It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

Is it better to get balanced cables, such as Monsters XLN's?2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator

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Monster is no different than Bose. Great marketing, nothing more. Over priced crap in a nice box.

jmelton86 wrote: Is it better to get balanced cables, such as Monsters XLN's?

"Balanced" does you no good, unless your source and destination is balanced. The very definition of "balanced" means you CAN'T use it with a standard RCA connection. If monster calls a standard RCA a balanced type, then they ARE no better than Bose... It's all marketing! ;)It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

Just wondering b/c I thought balanced basically meant both -'s are grounded out. I guess Monster was using Pioneer units when they made the XLN's2013 Kia Rio -90a alternator

DDX470HD GTO14001 GTO1014D (x3)

Big3 in 1/0G

1/0G to GTO14001

jmelton86 wrote: Just wondering b/c I thought balanced basically meant both -'s are grounded out. I guess Monster was using Pioneer units when they made the XLN's

Balanced means that there are two positive signal cables, but one runs 180 degrees out of phase from the other. When received at the far end, any noise on the signal cables will be identical, but the negative signal wire is inverted BACK, inverting the noise as well... Now you have noise, on top of the SAME noise, but inverted, thus cancelled.It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."