RCA Cable
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Printed Date: July 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Topic: RCA Cable
Posted By: TheSaint421
Subject: RCA Cable
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 5:30 PM
Does anyone know of a place to get bulk hi-quality RCA cable, and RCA ends? so I can make RCA cables at whatever length I want? I have looked all over the place but can only find premade RCA cables... Thanks guys
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Posted By: AJRXtreme
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 5:56 PM
how long are u looking to make them?
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Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:17 PM
anywhere from 4ft to 20 ft, but I just wanted the option to, not looking for 100ft RCA cables... The Saint
Posted By: AJRXtreme
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:24 PM
yeah i see what ur trying to do. I have no idea where u could get them. Im sure other people on this forum could tell you. Just keep waiting patiently and theres gotta be someone with good info.
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03 F150 on 24's
HU:Pioneer DVD5700
Frt:MC57
Subs:(12)S12L7
Amps:(3)KX2500.1's, MC-2004
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:34 PM
thanks
Posted By: dedlyjedly
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:38 PM
as far as i know you can't get high-quality rca cable that has yet to be terminated. the cable itself is just a coaxial cable, so you can get bulk rg59 or rg6 cable and then terminate it with rca connections instead of f-pin. not a real high-quality option, but an option none the less!
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Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:49 PM
yeah, I have loads of digital Coax in my house, thats not what I am looking for, it's not good enough to use as RCA cable... all I know is the companies making the RCA cables have to be getting the bulc cable from somewhere.... Thanks guys
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:56 PM
I know you can buy hi-qual Gold plated S-Video ends, as I had to pick up a few to repair a S-video cable for my television, so I can't see RCA ends being any different. just a though regards, The Saint
Posted By: dxav
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 6:59 PM
Have you tried www.partsexpres.com, or www.digikey.com?
DXAV
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 7:10 PM
www.Mitekfactoryoutlet.com try that site ------------- double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 7:15 PM
Actually, you are wrong... I don't just blurt it out like that often, but in this case, I thought it needed to be said.
The coax cable used for digital cable makes a SPECTACULAR audio cable. It's very low capacitance and inductance, high quality foam dielectric(insulator), with a typically large signal conductor, and consequently low DCR, make it an ideal RCA signal cable. Almost all of the cables in my home system are made from coax cable - RG6 to be exact. Why do they use this geometry to transmit cable signals? Because of it's low loss characteristics at high frequencies. granted the loss factor will be worse at lower (audio) frequencies, but in the distances that are needed in the car, you are not going to be able to tell that you have a .002dB loss at 16kHz...
Also, a few months back, Steven Kephart of Adire Audio posted this article about the differences between coax cable and twisted pair... interesting read. The specs for coax are very good, the only bad thing in using coax is the size of the cable and the solid center conductor... not the best idea in an automotive environment. ------------- It all reminds me of something that Moličre once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 7:20 PM
perfect, www.partsexpres.com has the cable I would need, now I just need to find the ends... thanks guys The Saint
Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 7:25 PM
haemphyst wrote:
Actually, you are wrong... I don't just blurt it out like that often, but in this case, I thought it needed to be said.
The coax cable used for digital cable makes a SPECTACULAR audio cable. It's very low capacitance and inductance, high quality foam dielectric(insulator), with a typically large signal conductor, and consequently low DCR, make it an ideal RCA signal cable. Almost all of the cables in my home system are made from coax cable - RG6 to be exact. Why do they use this geometry to transmit cable signals? Because of it's low loss characteristics at high frequencies. granted the loss factor will be worse at lower (audio) frequencies, but in the distances that are needed in the car, you are not going to be able to tell that you have a .002dB loss at 16kHz...
Also, a few months back, Steven Kephart of Adire Audio posted this article about the differences between coax cable and twisted pair... interesting read. The specs for coax are very good, the only bad thing in using coax is the size of the cable and the solid center conductor... not the best idea in an automotive environment.
I didn't explain myself well enough, I apologize, I didn't want to use digital coax for the main reason that it's difficult to snake through small areas in the car. I realize the quality of RG-6, especiall over RG-59, just with video the quality gain is great.... I have the stuff running from my PC to the amplifyer in my house, but I meant that it wasn't practical to use in the car, thats all... Sorry for the confusion. The Saint
Posted By: Francious70
Date Posted: November 23, 2004 at 11:02 PM
Radioshack should have the RCA ends and just use regular ole' wire. just make sure you twist the wires.
Paul
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Posted By: TheSaint421
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 1:18 AM
Francious70 wrote:
Radioshack should have the RCA ends and just use regular ole' wire. just make sure you twist the wires.
Paul
thanks, I found the hi-qual RCA connectors that I needed... I have used those ones at RadioShaft, and they are worthless...... but thatnks anyways regards, The Saint
Posted By: audiocableguy
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 8:06 AM
The highest quaility RCA's I have found for Coax is Canare. The connector is crimp type and looks like a million bucks and costs around $3 Canare also makes a 2 cond. shield cable L-2B2at that rocks for RCA cables. Very small diameter, inexpensive. Switchcraft RCA's available from partsexpress.com are inexpensive and decent quaility.
One thing to watch using coax are sharp bends. That solid core doesn't like 90deg. bends.
Posted By: audiocableguy
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 8:24 AM
haemphyst, I looked at the article you have linked. Belden 8412 is not a true coax cable. The 8412 is a rubber jacketed cable used for mic cables. Looking at one right now! It is a shielded pair with a braided shield making it a shielded twisted pair. It is not a core surrounded by a shield making it a true coax.
The article doesn't address RG coax cable for the use on low level signals. I have used coax for this purpose and works excellant. Doing installs it's great because all you need are a few types of ends and a spool of coax and your in business.
Posted By: meltingplastic
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 10:48 AM
U can use Cat-5E cable.. theres 8 wires total inside.. what you do is take the brown and BROWN / white and make the left neg.. orange and ORANGE / white make that left pos.. blue and blue/white right pos.. green and GREEN / WHITE right neg.. u can get the rca ends at parts express...
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Posted By: audiocableguy
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 11:42 AM
meltingplastic didn't read this article: https://www.adireaudio.com/Files/TechPapers/CarCables.pdf
Posted By: meltingplastic
Date Posted: November 24, 2004 at 12:21 PM
nope i didnt.. thanks for the correction.. i had never done it just heard about it.. i'm a computer engineer so i have tons of cat5e cabling around and someone had told me about it.. never did any testing.. so i've been mistaken... bows head
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