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Need a cheap long audio cable

post #1 of 7
11/3/09 at 4:00pm
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Sometimes I like to play music from my bed on my home theater. The cord needs to be about 20-25 feet. Ive bought a few wires from radioshack. One sounded absolutely horrible, the other was alright for the length but the jack got destroyed in about a month, very poor quality. Where can I get a decent long wire cheap. I assume I could make my own but when i make cables, they never come out as good as I wanted.

Im looking to spend under 20 or maybe a bit more for an optical one.

I guess I would take recommendations for a shorter higher quality cable as well to go from my computer to amp for my headphones as well.

I am assuming I can use an optical cable as i have a receiver with optical in and my macbook has optical out. Should I possibly try this?
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post #2 of 7
11/3/09 at 4:13pm
Check monoprice.com

Great place to buy from. Go for the cables that say "PREMIUM...."
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post #3 of 7
11/3/09 at 4:25pm
I've had very good luck with monoprice.com cables as well, and even the long-run cables have been fine in my HT.
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post #4 of 7
11/4/09 at 1:52pm
Blue Jeans Cable (BJC) Blue Jeans Cable -- Quality Cables at Reasonable Prices
I have them and I like them.
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post #5 of 7
11/5/09 at 1:18am
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Originally Posted by punk_guy182 View Post
Blue Jeans Cable (BJC) Blue Jeans Cable -- Quality Cables at Reasonable Prices
I have them and I like them.
+1, a well built cable.
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post #6 of 7
11/6/09 at 12:15am
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Wow monoprices cables are so cheap i ended up buying 70$ worth of cable, various things that ive wanted but too expensive to buy at radio shack. Thanks guys.
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post #7 of 7
11/6/09 at 1:32am
Be careful with big cheap cables. In my experience, the super skinny OEM style ones sound better (less bad might be a better way to describe the difference). If you have cables with PVC insulation, it is probably better to have less (smaller diameter) cable. The least expensive non diy cables I like are some of the builds from Markertek. Go for plenum rated if you can, as that usually means dialectrics with less absorbtion. Blue Jeans Cable has some great values, but I really don't like the sound of the Canare RCA connectors they favor, though they are nice and useable if you have fragile PCB mount jacks.

Paul
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