To put it all in perspective, there was a post going around reciently which may or may not have been legit, but was presented as though it were, whereas a guy spliced some RCA connectors onto some rusty barbed wire and ran some fairly sophisticated tests on them.

they passed... as did some similar coathanger cables of the same ilk.(My assesment of said posts may not be totally accurate, but that's sorta what it was all about)

I've had good luck-I guess, how can I tell?-But, I've been using Rat Shack and the before referenced AR cables with gold plated connectors cause they look cool and help with corossion.

The electrons seem to be doing their reciprocating dances just fine however, on the relative cheap.