Best places to buy custom RCA cables? (for a minimalist connection on my Schiit stack)

Jan 20, 2017 at 11:20 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 5

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I am having trouble Googling good places to order a custom pair of RCA cables from. So many people here have custom cables of all sorts, I am sure the community has some recommendations!
 
Thanks to advice on this forum, I just bought my first "starter audiophile" setup. Modi/Magni 2 Uber and HD 650. I am in love.
 
Now I want to buy an optimal RCA cable pair to minimize the footprint of the system. I bought the shortest monoprice RCA pair that I could find (1.5') and its way too long, its coil around the back is bigger than the pair of boxes themselves.
 
I would ideally like a cable designed for stacking the Modi and Magni vertically. I am thinking that 90* connector ends might be helpful so that the cable itself doesn't have to make an extreme bend. It would be an extremely short cable, I can find nothing like it on sale anywhere.
 
Yes I could make my own cables, and I would probably even have a little fun, but I don't have any of the equipment I'd need and I don't have any other audio equipment that I want to make custom cables for, so I'm hoping that there is a competitive market of custom cable sellers on Head-Fi that could just make me this one awesome cable "that really ties the Schiit Stack together".
 
Jan 20, 2017 at 2:44 PM Post #2 of 5
May not be exactly what you're looking for, but Schiit makes 6 inch RCA cables, that we're made for their stacks. The cables will still protrude a little, but no where near as bad as what you currently have. Cost 20 bucks US.
 
Jan 20, 2017 at 4:42 PM Post #3 of 5
  May not be exactly what you're looking for, but Schiit makes 6 inch RCA cables, that we're made for their stacks. The cables will still protrude a little, but no where near as bad as what you currently have. Cost 20 bucks US.

 
Yeah those look like very high quality cables but they end up looking like this with the cable tension and how big the cable loop is relative to the size of the Schiit boxes:
 
http://cdn.head-fi.org/1/10/10ec4768_DSC_5956.jpeg
 
I'm looking for something more like this, or the cable equivalent:
 
http://introprose.com/images/PA090032-Edit.jpg
 
Jan 20, 2017 at 4:46 PM Post #4 of 5

I would definitely use the Schiit's as maybe the last resort if you can't get exactly what you're looking for. But I bet someone on the forums makes them, as I would be intrigued myself as I am getting a stack next month.
 
Jan 20, 2017 at 5:20 PM Post #5 of 5
I am having trouble Googling good places to order a custom pair of RCA cables from. So many people here have custom cables of all sorts, I am sure the community has some recommendations!

Thanks to advice on this forum, I just bought my first "starter audiophile" setup. Modi/Magni 2 Uber and HD 650. I am in love.

Now I want to buy an optimal RCA cable pair to minimize the footprint of the system. I bought the shortest monoprice RCA pair that I could find (1.5') and its way too long, its coil around the back is bigger than the pair of boxes themselves.

I would ideally like a cable designed for stacking the Modi and Magni vertically. I am thinking that 90* connector ends might be helpful so that the cable itself doesn't have to make an extreme bend. It would be an extremely short cable, I can find nothing like it on sale anywhere.

Yes I could make my own cables, and I would probably even have a little fun, but I don't have any of the equipment I'd need and I don't have any other audio equipment that I want to make custom cables for, so I'm hoping that there is a competitive market of custom cable sellers on Head-Fi that could just make me this one awesome cable "that really ties the Schiit Stack together".
I would think 90 * connectors might might even touch the ends of each other. How far is the distance between the rca's on the stack?
 

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