Flexible shielded hookup wire

[Mark Williams]

Shannon or anyone,

I was just looking at the Budgie amp photos and noticed some gray wire that appears to be stranded.

It looks to be fairly flexible.

I need a source for some good shielded wire, suitable for hookup in my DIY Tube Darling.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have some sort of computer related scavenged wire in my shop now, but it seems to be too unflexible, plus it has four wires.

I really am looking for a two wire, plus shield affair. Cheap would be good!!

Thanks,
Mark

[DeathRex]

John's wire shop on ebay. About $10-12 will get you 10 feet silver/teflon.
http://stores.ebay.com/Johns-Silver-Tef ... 7675.l2563

[20to20]

Shannon or anyone,

I was just looking at the Budgie amp photos and noticed some gray wire that appears to be stranded.

It looks to be fairly flexible.

I need a source for some good shielded wire, suitable for hookup in my DIY Tube Darling.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have some sort of computer related scavenged wire in my shop now, but it seems to be too unflexible, plus it has four wires.

I really am looking for a two wire, plus shield affair. Cheap would be good!!

Thanks,
Mark

Just grab one of the 20 spare RCA A/V cables you've collected from all the CD and DVD players you've bought and tossed, and cut the ends off. I'm using the video line from one of mine for an amp I'm completing and it has a very good shield. But the audio cables "should" have an adequate shield, too, if they aren't super cheap. I'm wondering if a line from a component video cable would be a super duper signal cable now. I just don't want to cut one of mine down just to look at it.

[Shannon Parks]

I use CDROM cables from desktop computers. Cheap, and free from work. I use MPC and MPC-II types, and the old propriety ones are particular useless for the IT guy.

Shannon

[Mark Williams]

Thanks everyone who replied so far! I didn't expect answers so quickly.

(To paraphrase Mr. Mackie SouthPark: "Are you boys working? Or screwing around....mmmmkay?")

Ha!

All good ideas and I will check them out!

Incidentally, still loving my Darling...got it in the system now with my old Conrad-Johnson PV10a preamp. Works great with the Bottlehead Quickie too!

Mark

[jollyrogr]

A guy could always re purpose some CAT5 cable too. More conductors than you wanted but you could always solder 4 pairs together?

[DeathRex]

And then there's some guy that'll pay $120 a foot, and swear it sounds better than anything else for twice the price.

[Geek]

I use RG174 from these people for internal shielded wire:
http://therfc.com/coax.htm

[burnedfingers]

If your looking for signal wire I use microphone wire 22-2 with shield

[TomMcNally]

I have access to tons of nice 22 ga two conductor shielded.
We recently rewired some studios and have lots of this that
was pulled out and replaced with Cat6 ...

See it here ... http://www.clarkwire.com/cableRS22G2.htm

It's "zip" style, meaning two pairs joined together like lamp cord.
One side red, the other green. Black and Red inside. You can use
it as two pairs, or simply rip it apart for one pair.
Take a look at the bottoms of most of my amps at http://tmamps.com
and you'll see it going from the RCA jacks to the first tube.

I'll be happy to fill up a small flat rate box with some for anyone
that asks, and pays the postage. Send me a message with your
address. I can probably mail on Monday 11/26 ...

[nyazzip]

Tom
any idea why did they decided to redo the wiring? not sure what category 6 implies....