scootermafia
MOT: Double Helix Cables
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That they do. You need really nice tools to make a cable whose impedance is spot on, Blue Jeans has em.
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.
What about make your own from RG6? It's rated up to a few GHz.