Looking for a high-end 75 ohm Coaxial (RCA) cable - Page 2

That they do.  You need really nice tools to make a cable whose impedance is spot on, Blue Jeans has em.  

stereovox or kimber

that being said, black cat veloce is good value

Peter at Double Helix Cables makes some very nice RCA cables. I just ordered one as well from him. Great build quality

I'd say save some money and get some generic ones. If it's used for digital audio you won't need anything fancy as a digital signal can not be altered by the cable itself. If you make it yourself you can always add some quality resistors to get a close to 75Ohms as possible.

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Originally Posted by Zombie_X 

I'd say save some money and get some generic ones. If it's used for digital audio you won't need anything fancy as a digital signal can not be altered by the cable itself. If you make it yourself you can always add some quality resistors to get a close to 75Ohms as possible.

On paper your attitude has merit but in actual practice digital cables do influence the end result...not by a large amount but enough to hear clear differences over run of the mill stuff and the next tier up. I compared the BJ BNC Belden special, the Canare BNC vs the Furutech Alpha AG and the Oyaide DB-510 with the Furutech besting all four of them...the closest in performance to the Alpha cable was, not surprisingly, the Oyaide DB-510. Either one of those are under 200 USD which IMO is not a lot of money compared to what some companies charge for much lesser quality kit (the Furutech Alpha is pure silver solid core, not SPC). At any rate my results are according to my own experience with others mileage varying since this is all subjective (to a certain point) when you come down to it.

The OP was asking for a decent cable not a bargain basement special. The BJ stuff is good quality but it's not the be all or end all by any means.

Peete.

The Oyaide DB-510 is what I use on my own system and it's the best I've tried so far.  Its price is not exorbitant and the entire signal chain is very well shielded OCC silver.  

Disclaimer - I don't carry or sell any Oyaide products.  If you want a DB-510, the site kosmic.us sells them.  I got my cable as a trade from a friend.

As much as I wanted my BJC coax to be better than the DB-510 (the orange and black colours match my usb cable) it just isn't as good - most immediately noticable difference is that the BJC is harsher on my sabre dac.

I've tried many digital cables in both coax and rca form and have heard to audible difference at all. I probably could not justify $200 for a digital cable at all. I can't see how just sending 0's and 1's could change the sound if the wire is different. Digital is digital and a cable can not influence that. At least that's my stand on it anyways.

But OP, Blue Jeans has nice stuff. You could always hit up Audioquest's ebay page for refurbished goods. I got a refurbished 2m coax cable from them for $40, so not so bad.
 

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Originally Posted by Pricklely Peete 

On paper your attitude has merit but in actual practice digital cables do influence the end result...not by a large amount but enough to hear clear differences over run of the mill stuff and the next tier up. I compared the BJ BNC Belden special, the Canare BNC vs the Furutech Alpha AG and the Oyaide DB-510 with the Furutech besting all four of them...the closest in performance to the Alpha cable was, not surprisingly, the Oyaide DB-510. Either one of those are under 200 USD which IMO is not a lot of money compared to what some companies charge for much lesser quality kit (the Furutech Alpha is pure silver solid core, not SPC). At any rate my results are according to my own experience with others mileage varying since this is all subjective (to a certain point) when you come down to it.

 

The OP was asking for a decent cable not a bargain basement special. The BJ stuff is good quality but it's not the be all or end all by any means.

 

Peete.

Right, bottom line is, if your budget is $30, the BJC is a very solid cable (I have one too and it's a great value).  If it's $200, give the Oyaide a try.