Braided vs shielded wires on input connection

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Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #15 on: May 23, 2013, 06:16:20 PM
Of course you COULD use the wire the way it was designed

Ah, the voice of reason... :)

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Offline Paul Joppa

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Reply #16 on: May 24, 2013, 06:10:02 PM
White is hot, blue is cold on the linked PDF. Hot goes to the RCA center pin, cold to the outer shell. The shield usually goes to the cold at one end. There are "rules" but it's best to try the resulting cable in both directions and see what works best in your setup.

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Offline Laudanum

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Reply #17 on: May 25, 2013, 12:47:58 AM
Seems like extra work for an amp that can be dead quiet already with the simple braided configuration   :D   I'd also personally hate to wire inputs to a "Blue Velvet" pot with quad ... used as intended   :o      And I like and use the Canare quad for lots of things.

Desmond G.


Offline Mike B

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Reply #18 on: July 21, 2013, 12:08:04 PM
I have a good length of the shielded cable that came with my Stereomour that I did not use as I  wired one set of inputs direct to the volume control.

I will add a ground lug and use that to wire the Crack inputs.

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Reply #19 on: July 21, 2013, 03:19:19 PM
PJ has it correct as far as the hot and cold goes. As far as the shield goes, my understanding is that the prefered treatment for the shield is to connect the input end of the shield to the cold, and do not connect the output end at all. Just trim it, and use a short length of heat shrink tubing  to keep it away from touching hot or cold. I have been using that cable for interconnects, and input cable from the RCA's forward, with great success. I have been using both versions of that cable quite a bit.

Bernie.