Mar 04, 2008 11:44 am I just use cheepy roll of wire I bought from a hardware shop for less than £5 and that works fine with my 5.1 surround.
Affirmation of my hatred for overpriced cabling
Posted on Mar 04, 2008 11:31 am
Tadpui
I am not a crook's head
Member Since: Mar 14, 2003
I'm not sure how much stock to put into this due to the lack of cited sources, but I saw this posted elsewhere and thought some of you might get a kick out of it:
www.engadget.com/2008/03/...ster-cable-and/
I spent an hour following the embedded links in that story and I love the content of that site.
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Mar 04, 2008 11:44 am I just use cheepy roll of wire I bought from a hardware shop for less than £5 and that works fine with my 5.1 surround.
Mar 04, 2008 12:58 pm hahahahahaha, thats awesome.
I gotta use that in the next version of HRC's mission statement.
Mar 04, 2008 10:33 pm One thing to consider is the heftyness of the coat hanger wire. That solid bugger can carry a pretty hefty load of current without loss. I'm switching my cables right now to coat hanger wire.
Mar 04, 2008 11:21 pm ...and if you wrap it with electrical tape and hot glue the solder joints it might actually be safe! :)
Mar 08, 2008 08:22 pm I'm puttin on Banana Jacks and using melt liner shrink tube to cover em.
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