Any cable experts online?? Whose cables are these?
Make clickable links, more folks will check out your thread and possibly offer advice. http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr355/rflacks_2008/cable1.jpg http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr355/rflacks_2008/cable2.jpg |
They look like Audio Research Litzlink 1 cables from the late 1980's or early 1990's. I have only seen the brochure but they sure look like them. I own Litzlink 2 cables which were the more expensive version. These cables were hand made in house by Audio Research until a few years ago. Though I think the black litzlink 1 version may have been discontinued earlier. None of the ARC cables that I have seen have any markings on them. They used those smaller spades to fit the screws on the speaker strips Audio Research used back then. |
Where the light is reflecting off of the back of them in photo #1, it makes them look either braided, or shielded. Then in the second photo, it looks like a wire in spiral wrapped around them, at least to me. I have a headphone extension cable I bought years ago, that has a bad connection in the jack end. When these are used, it sounds just like their plugged in the headphone preamp itself. No added coloration, or loss of anything. I have a generic extension cable that I bought years back that I can't remember where it was from. Both have no markings. The unused spare one sounds so bad, I can't even use it. I think I could buy some discount store one that may sound better, but that's not saying much. I guess I'll just see if I could find a halfway decent jack to fix the old one. I just brought this up because I'd like to find close to, or exact replacement of the original, to have for a spare. |
