So I Got Bored…

[Caged]

I bought some Aego M speakers from the Member's Market last week, and very nice speakers they are too – yes I know I could build seperates and they'd be better blah blah blah but I appreciate these things taking up very little desk space and still sounding respectable.

Anyway, for some reason they are supplied with white cables, even if you have the black speakers, and the cable is flat and I have an irrational hatred of flat cable since it never sits nicely where it's put, instead wanting to waft around the floor and generally be annoying.

So I cracked out some parts from my box of junk and got building, and the result are some shiny new black ones (that barely fit in the connector because the cable is overkill )



Before you ask, no it doesn't sound any better because all cable is the same – I did this purely for aesthetics and I think I've achieved what I set out to do. Note to anyone wanting to do the same, because of the size of the Neutrik connectors including the strain relief you won't be able to mount these on stands, but I'm not aware of anyone who does anyway.

 

[Caged]

I hate to think how much money is tied up in my box of stuff – I only buy Neutrik (unless there's a good reason not to, e.g. I need a proprietary connector) and normally get a couple of spares if I'm doing a large-ish job. Might have to look at what's 'in stock' before ordering any more. Found some Ethercon stuff today and I've never used it before .

 

[Caged]

There's different types of PowerCon, I believe the smaller connector is good for up to 20amps. It's a great thing to start standardising racks on because nobody else (comparatively) uses them so stealing your power cables is useless, and they can be keyed so you can daisy chain low-power items together. The fact it fits nicely in the D-shell connector cutouts and is a locking connector is icing on the cake. On the negative side IEC cables/ceeform are everywhere so they're cheaper and easy to get hold of in a pinch.

Ethercon is an RJ45 jack in an XLR housing, and has a compatible socket that fits in a D-shell cutout. It totally covers up the little plastic tab thing and uses a metal style eject catch like XLRs have. It's used a lot for digital multicores when coupled with suitably pricey network cable so that it doesn't get destroyed on tour / being handled by Gallows. I can see it's uses where networking has to be handled by retards and will see lots of connections/disconnections.