Anyone had success making long RCA cables from scratch? In theory, it's simple. An RCA cable is just a pair of wires, both connected to a tip/ring plug at each end. Pretty much any strand of wire ...

For an unbalanced cable that has a sheilding, whats the proper way to do this? I'm making my RCA cables because I want to keep excess cables at a minimum so I'm cutting them to length.

Then Component Cables Came Along Just when we all got comfortable with those familiar red, white, and yellow RCA cables—bam!—component cables showed up like the tech version of a plot twist.