looong interconnect cable

Posted by: Adrian F. on 14 March 2002

I am moving my naim equipment away from between the speakers (too much "good vibrations" after the DBL upgrade).
The tv (removed speakers), vcr and dvd is staying there. So I need a long (ca. 10-11meters) interconnect cable to get the tv-sound into my naim preamp. In the moment a 1meter chord cobra phono rca to bnc cable is doing the job perfectly.

I do not need a solution to justify a CDS2 class source. But I have no idea, what to expect from a cable in this length.... hum? hiss? radio pickup?
Is it worth to let chord make a custom cable in this length or will it sound bad anyway?

When anyone has experience with this... thanks for sharing it with me!

happy listening

Adrian

Posted on: 14 March 2002 by Not For Me

I got my dealer to make a 7m 2 phonos to DIN for the TV / VCR, cost about £50. I think they used chord cable.

Posted on: 14 March 2002 by Phil Sparks

I ran an output from my 82 tape out in my lounge to the tape in of a nait in my bedroom and from that nait tape out to a nait in my office - so I can tune my NAT01 in the lounge to Radio 4 and get it all around the house. Each run is approx 20m long and there's no interference. I just got some pretty fat 'figure of 8' cable from Maplin, good screening on each side. Even at that far end of this the sound in my office is fine.

Phil

Posted on: 15 March 2002 by Frank Abela

I understand from Chord Co that the best cable for long runs is the Chameleon2. In some circles, it's used specifically for transmission at around the 10 metre length.

Of course, it's 'only' the telly, so you could easily want to go cheaper with Cobra or Chrysalis. I use the latter at 4m length with no problems - remarkably good results considering the source.

I know this may sound crazy but - any chance of going with a plasma screen instead of the TV? Standard tellys have extremely nasty cases which ring, creak and buzz. Plasmas have better (metal?) chassis which don't make noise anywhere near as much, as well as not intruding into the space between the speakers. You can buy a separate tuner for them (or use your VCR) which can be placed on the rack. The result would be that you wouldn't have anything between the speakers of any significance. Just a (crazy) thought...

Regards,
Frank.
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Posted on: 15 March 2002 by garyi

I have a run of about 8m from tv to hifi, there is no need for that length but Ihad it knocking around, it was about a fiver from maplins and although cheap the output from the tele is nothing to write home about anyway

Posted on: 15 March 2002 by Adrian F.

Matt: It's not the way that I have money because I own DBL's - the other way round - there is no money left because I could't resist to own them...

Frank: Your thoughts are not crazy at all - I had the same at the beginning of the year. The budget was big enough to seriously evaluate good video beamers or plasma displays. But suddenly a pair of s/h DBL's came around... you know now where the money went

The cord web-site does not list the Chameleon cable under the DIN/Custom chapter? I think I'll go for a custom Cobra, otherwise it gets too expensive for this purpose.

Btw. the usual Plasmas only have 480 lines resolution which is not enough for a standard PAL Video signal (576 lines). So I hope, the Hi-Res Plasmas will come to a more reachable price level , until I filled up my reserves again.

happy listening

Adrian

Posted on: 15 March 2002 by Martin Payne

quote:
Originally posted by Adrian Frauchiger:
Btw. the usual Plasmas only have 480 lines resolution which is not enough for a standard PAL Video signal (576 lines). So I hope, the Hi-Res Plasmas will come to a more reachable price level , until I filled up my reserves again.

Adrian,

I may be wrong, but I think there may be some confusion here.

I understood that the 480 lines spec was the ability to resolve 480 lines in the horizontal direction.

I think that the 576 line spec is the number of vertical scan lines, which will allow it to portray 576/2=288 lines in the vertical direction.

Or, I could be wrong. Video is not my strong point!

cheers, Martin