rolling my own RCAs

[cardinalsfan 10+ year member]

well, i dont wanna spend lots of money for those high class RCAs and i was wondering, has anyone here rolled thier own? im gonna use stinger wire and rockford connectors and i know how to do it but...id like more insight. how many wires are there to connect per RCA?

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[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

2 wires per channel, it's not very difficult

 

[cardinalsfan 10+ year member]

so im guessing that the wires connect to the tip and the shield of the RCA for each channel right? and thanks for the help

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Yup.

 

[cardinalsfan 10+ year member]

cool...has anyone done this before? the reason i am doing it is to get special length RCAs and so it dosent cost a fortune....

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

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[cardinalsfan 10+ year member]

was it all that hard honestly? and is it worth it in terms of signal and quality?

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

nope, i dont know about quality, i havent actually used them

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

rcas r rcas

 

[snebes 10+ year member]

am i the only one seeing double? one of the few times i check mp3car's audio section too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

make sure there are atLEAST four full twists per inch... easiest way to do it is not by hand, but with a drill

 

[cardinalsfan 10+ year member]

yeah you are seeing double, i needed to make sure i got answers on this...and thanks to everyone