Any reason NOT to use rg59 for rca interconnects?

[flightops]

Well this was unexpected.

I did the last cable in the main “circuit” runs today. All thats left is an interconnect between the pioneer cassette player and the rca switch. Has nothing to do with anything unless I’m playing a cassette.

The last canle was a patch cord from the graphic eq (everything runs through it) and to the rca switch for the cassette side of things. The run from the cassette switch to the main switch was already done.

I’ve always had a touch of left to right channel imbalance. Just a hair. I do know when I did the dc offsets in “Big Suey” the left channel was a bit touchier to adjust than the right, so I’ve always just accounted the imbalance to not being able to match the channels as precisely as I wanted to.

The patch rca’s from eq to switch were two different cables, although they both metered “serviceable”.

But, after installing the new “matched” interconnect cables, the imbalance is gone. If anything, the left shows a little better than right on both the et70 vu meters and Big Suey’s wpc meters. However imperfect they may be at showing what the absolute power and vu readings are, the trend of left lower than right is established.

So it seems that once again, although cables can’t add anything to the system, they sure can “take away”.

Or maybe I’m just seeing things again…

 

[flightops]

Score another one for at least “decent” cables.

Finished the last set for the cassette deck.

Flipped the power switch and the usual background noise is gone. Metered the old (ie: thrift store grab) and they’re fine as far as continuity goes. Never worried about it much because, well, you know….compact cassette.

But the new mic cord cables seem to have quieted down the cassette circuit as well.

Again, they’re not adding anything to it, they just not “taking away”.

To be clear: I’m not saying run out and replace your cables with something else, just that my mix and match sets were having an effect on the playback. Obviously, I had some defect/deficiency in the old cabling somewhere and all I did was eliminate that.

I’m happy with the total return on my labor to run the whole system with the same cable and connects. Small differences, but worth it to me.

Those big fat cables also look kinda cool and organized and there’s lots of “shiny bits”….

which appeals to my “inner crow”…