| Word Clock Cables: the straight poop, please!
Okay, so I see this huge price differential in the cost of word clock cables: you can pay $5 for a Hosa word clock cable that is several feet long (several feet TOO long), or you can pay $50 for a 1.5 foot long cable from somebody like Apogee, Monster, et-al. There is no in-between. SO here's the questions I have:
1.) Is any word clock cable simply two male BNC connectors soldered to a piece of coaxial cable and the difference in cost is merely a reflection of the QUALITY of the components & workmanship, OR...
2.) Are the pricey cables actually some kind of totally different technology that merely LOOK like coax but have different "guts" altogether which are built to deal with digital transmissions of that type?
I EXPECT that #1 is the correct answer, plus some obnoxious name-brand markup. But the difference in price is so radical I had to ask just to make sure I wasn't doing something terribly wrong before I went ahead and built my own cables from Redco parts for next-to-nothing...
Cheers,
Adam |