Hi DIYAudio members,
I always these ridiculous "I need this" requests on this forum. I'm looking (again specifically) for those OLD, GREY, single-ended RCA cables for speaker connections on old crappy stereos from the late sixties- early seventies. I need two, at least six feet each, and I don'T care what's on the other end, another RCA or just bare wire, they're going to the speakers. You know those old moulded RCA types? They're not repairable, and they have this mostly cylindrical shaped body? I wish I had a picture, but I lost mine. The output of the radio has two RCA jacks for the speaker. I wnt tstuff to be in the same era that will fit my nice old, slightly beat-up Automatic Radio HMX-4000 stereo. Man, talk about good sounding speakers...
Thanks
I always these ridiculous "I need this" requests on this forum. I'm looking (again specifically) for those OLD, GREY, single-ended RCA cables for speaker connections on old crappy stereos from the late sixties- early seventies. I need two, at least six feet each, and I don'T care what's on the other end, another RCA or just bare wire, they're going to the speakers. You know those old moulded RCA types? They're not repairable, and they have this mostly cylindrical shaped body? I wish I had a picture, but I lost mine. The output of the radio has two RCA jacks for the speaker. I wnt tstuff to be in the same era that will fit my nice old, slightly beat-up Automatic Radio HMX-4000 stereo. Man, talk about good sounding speakers...
Thanks
Lots of low budget stereo units, used RCA connectors for their speaker cables.
I DIY'ed some long ones using AC zip cords.
I DIY'ed some long ones using AC zip cords.
I think the idea was trying to maintain as close to “original” as possible. I doubt you can find 24 gauge zip cord anymore, or the cheap RCAs that were used. You can have the functional equivalent by buying cheap $3.99 dual RCA patch cords, cutting off the red plugs, and only using the black. It still “looks” roughly like zip cord, but is still physically larger than those old “speaker wires”. Lamp cord is too, and you’d have to find somewhere to hide the 1 ohm resistor to make it electrically equivalent.