MOTM

Hello, all!

OK - My two cents.  Canare cable.  Back when I was a 'hero' Second 
Engineer at Skyline Recorders in Old Topanga Cyn. in Southern California, 
we upgraded our cables to accomodate Bob Dylan for his "Knocked Out 
Loaded" album.  We went from some standard Belden co-ax to shiny, new 
Canare Quad cable, where you get a twisted pair each for the Hot & Cold 
lines (and braided shielding, too).  I was in charge of assembling these 
cables, since I was the only one with enough soldering/wiring experience 
to do so.

Wiring the cables was easy.  Instead of a single wire to the Hot or 
Cold, a twisted pair was soldered to the terminal, and covered with 
heatshrink tubing.  The wires in each of the twisted pair were very fine, 
supposedly suitable for transmitting high frequencies, and the shield 
weaving was robust.  Everything was insulated with heatshrink, the cables 
were color-coded as to their length... a Pro-fess-ional job, if'n I do 
say so me'self.

We did an A/B comparison with some of our old mic. cables and the new 
Canare ones, and the difference was noticeable.  The Canares were 
"half-a-hush" quieter (Due to the twisted pair leads for each of the signal 
paths, I believe) than the old stuff.  While I won't go as far as saying 
that Monster Cable is far superior to Rat Shark 16-gauge zipcord, I can 
say, with impunity, that my ears heard a tangible difference in the 
quietness of Canare cable, compared to the old Belden mic. cables.

At the time, the Canare stuff cost us the ass-tronomical price of $300 
(mid-'80's) for about 100 ft., but it was worth it.  I'm a BIG 
supporter of the Quad (?) cable, after that.

As I said, my two cents...

     Dave Garfield, synthead

PS - Paul, You 'de MAN!!



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