I make my own out of small gauge coax cable. so count me out.
Jim
>From: Cary Roberts <Cary.Roberts@...>
>Reply-To: motm@onelist.com
>To: Mark T <mmt@...>
>CC: motm@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [motm] Patchcord kits - My Vote
>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:35 -0400 (EDT)
>
>From: Cary Roberts <Cary.Roberts@...>
>
> >Canare L-4E6S Star Quad @ $0.43 / foot 1000' @ $379.00
> >
> >This is a heavier cable than the L-2T2S (4 - 21 AWG conductors plus a
> >braided shield)
> >Also, it is manufactured in more colors:
> >Black, Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Purple, Orange, Red, Yellow, White.
> >I've used this cable extensively - road abuse proven - and prefer it
>over
> >anything else out there.
>
>Star Quad is a pain in the @$$ to strip and prep for soldering. It's
>fine when you need top notch mic cables for long runs in the studio,
>but I don't see where anyone wants to spend 15 minutes prepping a single
>cable. A single conductor spiral shielded cable takes less than two
>minutes to prep and solder. Trust me on this, I'm soldering together
>seven 96pt patchbays terminated to EDACs, and 36 16pair EDAC to TRS
>cables. Time is money, and if I had to spend 15min/pair prepping cable,
>I'd never get done.
>
>-Cary
>
>