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Does anyone know where I can buy SUPER long RCA cables?

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fluxcapacitorMB

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I am looking for EXTREMELY long RCA cables. About 50-100footers. The largest Radio Shack carries is 12ft. To buy 6 or 7 of those and connect them would be a pain. If anyone here knows of anywhere in Orange County, California, or an online retailer that sells 'em, please lemme know.
 
Whenever I've needed long RCA cables I just take a normal pair, slice em in half, and splice however much speaker cord I need in. Not the greatest thing you can do for sound quality, but it works.
 
I bought a 50ft cable at radio shack.
100ft of RCA is going to degrade the quality a bit.
 
If its for audio...make em outta cat5 cable....they'll be some of the quietest cables u'll ever hear. I use em for my car stereo.
 
You can always use coax cable and buy adapters to convert the F-connectors to RCA plugs. If you get the good quality coax (RG6) the cables plus adapters should run about $25 per cable for 100FT. Also the coax is sheilded a lot better than most RCA cables.
 
Take it from a sound tech. If you want to send quality audio over long distances such as several hundred feet, you need to send a balanced signal instead of unbalanced traditional line-level signals.

The important question is what do you want to do with this setup?
 
I think you'd be okay with 50' runs, maybe a bit more even, you could try it and see at least. If I'm not mistaken radio shack sells like 50' rolls of cable. Go buy a roll and some rca ends and make your own cables, its not too difficult 🙂
 
50 to 100 FEET!!!???

you are better off getting 2 RG6 (or better) cables (75 ohm), a signal amplifier and hook those two via the signal amp, and getting F to RCA adapters...

i'm pretty much not kidding...

if you want to make it yourself, you do want a signal amp, because after 100 feet, it's DOWN HILL!!!..

radio shack has a sale on coaxial cable this month =) get that (1000' roll, or get what you need, you'll save a lot on the 1000' roll) get some GOOD ends and you're set. you may still want a signal amp.
 
OK, here's what I need it for. We have Satellite TV. I currently have it ran into ma room on the coax output. Prollem iz, that coax ouput on the satellite receiver is Fd up. It only ouputs randomly, which when I wanna tape episodes of say...The Soprano's, doesn't work 'randomly.' AND, that coax only outputs mono sound anyhow. I know the RCA ouputs on it work, so I figured I'd use them. So I need a total of 3 separate RCA cables. Which using a separate coax w/ RCA adapter for each one is a good idea I hadn't though of, that would be expensive. I dunno though, at least now I've got some more ideas to toss around.
 
What I did when I needed really long RCA cables once, is bought 100ft of COAX (Cable wire), and bought Coax to RCA adapters.. Best Buy has them, I am sure Radio shack does too.
 
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