...just purchased a home theater receiver and 5.1 speakers....needed a sub cable. After looking at Belken and others, I found this to be the best quality and best price. You don't really need gold connectors but this cable was less expensive than many which were much lower quality. Mediabridge Ultra Series - Dual Shielded Subwoofer Cable - RCA to RCA Gold Plated Pro Grade Connectors (25 Feet)
Built really well, I used this as a video cable running under neath my truck for a backup camera. Thick insulation means it will last a long time (I hope). Still working even after all winter with several snow storms and now rain storms.
Hooked this up to a subwoofer splitter to give me two subwoofers from receiver subwoofer pre-amp out. Even thought it's 25 feet (while the other is 3 feet), I couldn't quite tell the latency as both subwoofers seem to be in sync. I assume (from a non-electrical guru) this mean the thick cable allow the signal to travel through faster? Great price cable that does the job. Happy not to pay extra for expensive cables.
When I receive this cables I was surprised by high quality of this cables. I did check this cables with PYLE Pro Tester and test was positive. This cables are definitely quality product, I highly recommended.
I've been working with home theatres and home automation for the past 4 years and have to say that Mediabridge makes some excellent cables for the price. I've done work with a number of there different series cables and types and all of them have high quality builds and features. Can not pass up for the price..!
Mediabridge Ultra Series - Dual Shielded Subwoofer Cable - RCA to RCA Gold Plated Pro Grade Connectors (both 25 Feet and 15 Feet items):
Highly recommended for computer speaker use.
I bought three of the 15' version and two of the 25' version of these shielded RCA male/male cables for use in a desktop computer surround sound environment, and must say I'm blown away by how great my speakers sound now!
A little background: I have a fairly serious home/office setup with 2 PCs and a Mac Mini, 2 LCD screens, 1 large CRT, wireless hub, 3 printers... let's just say lots of hardware in a small space -- all with their various power cables and data wires or wireless connections. No doubt there's plenty of RFI/EMI/radiation flying around here, and it's probably contributing to my receding hairline. My custom-built oak computer desk was especially designed to hide all the wires with lots of cut-out holes and hidden cable runs, which unfortunately packs lots of cables together in sometimes pretty tight spaces. I work at home all day, listening to MP3s and talking via Skype; also there's a little light gaming some evenings.
For the past 5-6 years I'd been listening to a SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro with Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 surround speakers (non-powered; amp inside subwoofer enclosure) and had been pretty happy -- until I happened across the phenom of "near field monitors" and other recording-studio-quality speakers. It was a humbling experience, walking into a music equipment store and telling the guys I thought I had a pretty decent setup and then coming to find out it doesn't even begin to hold a candle to decent setups.
My Gigaworks S750 subwoofer/amp just happened to die suddenly during a lightning storm (it was actually powered down and unplugged, but I know, right?) so I decided to replace the whole speaker setup. After Googling and poring over tons of speaker reviews, I bought five KRK Rokit RPG6 speakers at the local Guitar Center because they sound good for the price (caught them on sale), they look good ("Black and yellow, black and yellow"...), and they have all three RCA, TRS, and XLR connections on the back. Plugged them in with my existing unshielded RCA cables from the Gigaworks setup and immediately got the infamous 60Hz hum and hiss. It was unbearably loud when the main computer was turned completely off, but got somewhat quieter when it was turned on and providing signal. The volume of this noise didn't vary much with changing the output volume from the sound card.
So I Googled around a bit and discovered this could be caused by either a "ground loop" or interference (RFI/EMI) problem. Spent the next several days trying to figure out if I needed to invest in some heavy-duty "balanced" TRS or XLR wires and how to connect the 2-conductor RCA wires from the back of my X-Fi sound card to these 3-conductor wires. I almost had it when a couple of guys on head-fi.org suggested I try these cables instead.
Long story short is these cables did the trick, in spades. Even being run right along-side lots of existing 120v, 60Hz power cables and such, there's no audible hum or hiss.
These are also much cheaper than some of the brand-name competition. I didn't buy Monster cables and so can't compare, but IMHO zero noise is zero noise no matter how much you spend.
Highly recommended for someone with a computer sound card and the RFI/EMI interference that goes along with typical computer installations. - 25ft - Audio Cable - Audio Cables - Subwoofer Cables'
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