Hello Everyone, I hope everyone is having a great time. Thanks to this forum I bought my first headphones the HD6xx and the Magni Heresy Dac. Unfortunately, I did not know, I needed RCA cables for my setup to work. I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations that will serve my setup well. My budget is 20 dollars.
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RCA Cables
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What country are you buying from?
Just buy the cheapest that you can find that look reasonably well made. There's no magic about copper.
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well made. Fair price. You can find much cheqper but not as well or solidly made.
https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/audio/indexmob.htm
https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/audio/indexmob.htm
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The website is weird which of the stereo cables do I need
The BJC LC-1 is fine - just put in the length you want and you should be good to go.
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Yeah, it's kind of a shame that the website hasn't received a makeover since its inception in 2002 or so.
Be warned, the connectors on these cables are tight and somewhat long, and the cable is relatively stiff.
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For that budget, I have had good luck with these:
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5346
FYI, Heresy is just an amp. You are going to need a DAC or some other source like a CD player, phone, computer, turntable with phono preamp, to use it.
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You don't need to spend anywhere near that much to get perfectly good cables. The primary differences are with the shielding and the flexibility. Just find some cables that don't look ridiculously cheap, that have solid connectors and that use braided shielding (that you can see because the plastic on the outside is clear). A number of years ago I found some very high quality RCA cables with the GE brand. This was probably twenty years ago, but you can still find them if you search for "GE Ultra Pro RCA cables". If you have a subwoofer, an easy way to tell the good cables from the bad ones is to connect two or three of them together using those little couples, so that the total length is ten to twenty feet, and if they don't pick up 60 Hz hum when run alongside some house wiring (lamp wiring with lamp on, or power cables for audio with the gear on, etc.), they're every bit as good as the most expensive cables you can buy. Assuming they aren't too stiff. Of course there are plenty of people who will welcome you to spend as much money as you like.
Note that back when component video was the current improvement over S-video, there were a lot of cables made for component video. The only difference between these cables and audio cables is that you get three of them instead of two of them. And instead of red and white markings you get red, green and blue markings. Prettier than red and white. Red and white is for fishing lures. If you run across some component video cables at a bargain price, all you have to do, to turn it into stereo audio cable, is to strip off one of the three cables.
EDIT: In the past I have bought cables that appeared to be high quality but that turned out to be bad because when used with subwoofer they picked up hum. They had high-quality connectors and were nice and thick. But they were black and I couldn't tell anything about the construction, the shielding in particular. If the package has an exploded image that shows the construction and you can see braided shielding, then you probably don't need for the outer plastic to be clear.
It was a terse way of saying that RCA cables may not be enough.
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Get these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PFNSFZT
I have a pair and they are really well made and nowhere near overpriced IMO.
Edit: Magni Heresy is an AMP not a DAC. You need a DAC first and then you can interconnect the DAC and AMP with these RCA cables.
I have a pair and they are really well made and nowhere near overpriced IMO.
Edit: Magni Heresy is an AMP not a DAC. You need a DAC first and then you can interconnect the DAC and AMP with these RCA cables.
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While not disagreeing in principle, these particular cables are very stiff, I have them and not overly impressed with the overall feel.
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I've got some of these and like them too. They're over the OP's $20 budget. My RCAs are longer though so not sure about the short ones.
I got some of the XLRs and they are clocked wrong for my Schiit stack and don't twist enough to be useable, so I am using some cheap 6 footers I had laying around.
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