Can u make interconnect from speaker cables


I haver a 26 foot pair of the CRL Silver speaker cables that I am not using- Can I cut them to length and reterminate them for use as Interconnects or are they completley different type of wires- thanks
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Not sure that it would be physically practicable to attach RCA connectors to the ends of these (and most other) speaker cables.

Even if it were, the technical considerations and parameters for the two types of cables are very different, as Audiolabyrinth indicated. It would function, but I suspect that a $50 pair of pro-oriented Mogami interconnects, that are designed to be interconnects, would provide better sonics.

Unfortunately, the CRL website does not present much in the way of technical data for their cables, even on basic parameters such as inductance, capacitance, resistance, and wire gauge, so it is hard to be more specific. It is apparent, though, that their speaker cables are unshielded, while their interconnects are shielded. In many systems can have significant implications with respect to susceptibility to buzz and hum that can be caused by ground loop effects and RFI/EMI pickup, especially with unbalanced (RCA) interconnections.

Finally, you would be destroying the resale value of your $4K+ speaker cables.

Regards,
-- Al
You certainly can, in the same way that you can make a motorcycle out of your family sedan.

Actually, it was all the rage as few years back to make speaker cables out of Home Depot power cords and cat5 cables, so why not try it? The results will be somewhat unpredictable however. From a financial standpoint, it might just make a bit more sense to sell them on to someone that can enjoy them as speaker cables and buy a nice set of interconnects, YMMV. Best of luck.
It would probably be a lot of work. Some IC makers do not use a shield but they often braid the hot and ground to help cope with no real shield. Another challenge would be adapting the much heavier gauge in a speaker cable to fit in your connectors. No reason that I have experienced to keep the larger gauge and the extra capacitance from the larger gauge can be a problem. However if you do not have IC's that are not silver wire based you may want to explore it a bit further.