CableDirect – 1m RCA/phono cable, 2 × 2 plugs, stereo audio cable, practically break-proof & flawless sound quality (coaxial cable, subwoofer/amp/HiFi & home cinema/Blu-ray, analogue & digital)

Superb quality

Have used a few of these cables with my music system to connect preamp to power amp, DAC to preamp, CD/SACD player to integrated amp and with an AV processor thrown. Work well with everything. The cable plugs have a firm fit to the equipment but are not overly tight, unlike the QED Performance Graphite which are extremely tight but they are so difficult to remove that one could easily damage the terminals of the equipment in the process. These KabelDirekt plugs are tight but not too tight. Have compared the fit and sound quality to a range of other cables that I own. Van den Hul - The Well (over £100 a pair), QED Performance Graphite (about £23), Primewire (about £7). The Primewire I found to be the least tight and could easily come loose when fiddling about with the various interconnections, the Van den Hul has about the same fit as the KabelDirekt, while the QED is absurdly over tight. All sound the same and my system is high end, it is very easy to believe that one does hear a difference when comparing cables or any other bits of HiFi equipment but all too often I have realised later with more careful testing that there is no difference. If there is a real difference it should be easy to hear and that difference should stay there on repeated listening. Interesting to note that some high end equipment makers say that exotic cables are not needed, just use short cables with good connections, low resistance and robust mechanical quality. The only time I found a difference with cables was with a cheap balanced XLR pair which effectively isolated the signal from extraneous interference noise but actually made the sound worse for some unexplained reason. Maybe for balanced cables they were just too cheap.

Great quality and price for these. Used them for my Hifi separate system. Worked like a dream 👍🏻

These are just what I needed as the leads which came with my new turntable were just a tad short and made setting up really awkward for me. These are good quality leads and have a nice snug fit and really give a good sound so no complaints here. Good price and good quality.

Perfect RCA cables 10/10 👍

I have an old projector with terrible built-in speakers. This excellent value cable allowed a connection between back of Blu-ray player to mini hifi leaving the connected projector to concentrate on picture alone. Sound quality is now excellent and the cable feels durable with lots of different lengths to suit your needs.

Since getting my vintage record player and amplifier about 10 years ago, I have been using a pair of old RCA cables that my dad had kept from years ago. I always thought that the slight hum you could hear in my setup was always going to be there, and I resigned myself to the fact that maybe there was an issue with grounding or something like that. After listening to a record for the first time in a while the other day using my headphones, I noticed the sound was moving from one ear to the other and was crackling badly when I fiddled with the RCA cables, so I went online and purchased these KabelDirect ones to replace them. I fitted them once they arrived and lo and behold, the dreaded hum I had grown so used to was gone! They fitted onto my setup easily with a little push (my old ones felt very loose and moved around a lot - not like these new ones. They feel quite secure). The cable is quite short (1M) but my turntable and amplifier sit right next to each other, so no issue there - I probably could have gone even shorter to be honest). They feel very nicely made, with tough rubber and good quality metal. There’s a small red line to indicate the right side input which is useful and a little more stylish and less glaringly obvious than I completely red one like my old cable. I am really pleased with my purchase and I kind of wish I had bought new RCA cables sooner!

Let's get to it. When you spend £300 on some fancy AQ RCA cables, you 'expect' them to sounds better than £10 cables. This expectation bias, coupled with no blind AB testing makes you really believe they are better, the mind is a very powerful thing. If they were measured there would be no difference in frequency response or distortion, so there is no difference in the sound. Understand this, do yourself a favour and buy these good quality cables for £10. Spend £290 on new records instead.