[Review&QnA] Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 Double-Shielded Low Capacitance Subwoofer Cable, 10 Foot, Black

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	[Review&QnA] Blue Jeans Cable LC-1 Double-Shielded Low Capacitance Subwoofer Cable, 10 Foot, Black GotoProduct About this item Assembled in our shop in Seattle, WA by American workers Heavy double-braid bare copper shielding provides the best protection available against induced low-frequency noise and hum Bulk cable stock manufactured to our specifications in Richmond, Indiana by Belden, the world leader in communications cabling Rated CM (superior to CL2, CL3) for in-wall installation; available both in white and black jacket Taversoe crimp RCA plugs offer tight grip through spring contact tension, ensuring solid connection without the danger of jack damage.
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★★★★★ Cured ground look hum when nothing else worked Verified Purchase I've struggled with subwoofer hum for some time. AC is fed to the sub via an AC conditioner Monster Power Center but still had a significant ground loop hum. Added an additional ground loop isolator. Did not work. Have a dedicated separate AC circuit for the sub (did not help). Tried a Blue Jeans isolation transformer and that worked but changed the phase of signal to the sub and to my ear it was annoyingly audible. As a last resort I replaced a high end sub incorrect with Blue Jeans LC-1 double shielded interconnect and voila the hum disappeared. The fact that a shielded cable solved the problem indicates that my problem was not AC ground loop but rather hum induced by other surrounding magnetic fields. The interconnect I replaced was shielded but with only one layer of shielding. Apparently a two layer shield in my case was necessary. Thanks Blue Jeans for great products and a phenomenal return policy (for the isolation transformer).   ★★★★★ Believe the hype Verified Purchase This product delivers a pure signal. Prior to this, I used an SVS cable to connect to my SVS SB-3000 subwoofer. The issue was that either the sound caused listening fatigue or, if the gain was lowered, the bass response would be too soft. In addition, I always felt like there were gaps in the frequency response. With the LC-1, the gain can be turned up and there is no fatigue at all. Zero. The sound quality is now on par with a movie theatre experience. Bass impact is robust, inoffensive and blends smoothly with the main speakers. Believe the hype. Quality cables make a difference and these guys know cables.   ★★★★★ Nice Verified Purchase Swapped out an old cable on a middle of the road old Onkyo subwoofer I had. Was going to replace it but bought new klipsch 600m book shelf speakers I needed more instead. This cable evened out the sound from the subwoofer. Running it on an older Onkyo amped AV receiver. Before this on the cheap cable I had to keep the power and frequency below 30-40% or it was just punchy mid bass and muddy. Now I can get it up almost to 100% if I want and clear through the whole bass range. Good buy for the price. Solid cable. I believe in quality cables but the super high end stuff is mostly snake oil sales in my opinion for the regular users. People in the AV businesses certainly need the super high end stuff but for home stereo these are perfect. Like that BJC are made in US as well!   ★★★★★ Solved my subwoofer hum! Verified Purchase I bought this cable because I was getting subwoofer hum. I was using an admittedly cheap cable from monoprice. I bought a new receiver (Denon S703H) and I noticed I had to turn the cable in a certain orientation to prevent the hum. I found Blue Jeans Cable online somewhere and decided to give it a shot. First off, yes, the cable isn't inexpensive. But the connectors look beautiful and the cable is feels premium. Best of all it solved my hum issue. Bottom line: cable quality matters. Shielding matters. I'm happy to support y'all. I need other cables to improve my surround system and I will look for BJC again.   ★★★★★ Great Quality Cable, improved bass response, worth the purchase for sure. Verified Purchase I gotta admit, I was skeptical that a sub cable would make a huge difference in the quality of the bass, but these cables are legit . I noticed a cleaner more punchier bass, so much so that I had to turn the gain down on my subs as it sounded louder. These are quality cables, you get what you pay for. I also have the Blue Jeans Cable coax interconnects from my receiver to my amp and those are high quality as well. My first time using Blue Jeans Cable brand, highly impressed, will be using them for all my wiring needs.   ★★★★★ The Real Deal Verified Purchase Exactly what I had hoped for...a larger gauge wire with added stability at both ends to keep it from developing a short over time, as it is bent at an angle to accommodate being plugged into the subwoofer and AVR. Only way it could be better is if the ends were 90 degree angles. Far superior to the cheap one I paid like $20 for a Best Buy a few years ago, but without breaking the bank. Would definitely recommend.   ★★★★★ Stop Feeding the Monster! Verified Purchase I had read several excellent reviews of Blue Jeans Cable products on various websites and in stereo/home theater magazines and decided to buy this subwoofer cable from Amazon a few weeks ago. This cable replaced the Mediabridge cable that I purchased along with one of my subwoofers more than a year ago. The Mediabridge cable is an excellent cable by any standard, but when I changed to the Blue Jeans Cable the low, bass notes became audibly clearer and better supported. I was also impressed with the apparent build quality of the cable so I went to the BJC website and ordered some of their 10awg speaker cables with banana terminals. I received them a couple of weeks ago and connected all of my speakers with these wires. They replaced the Monster cable that I had been using. I have known for many years that Monster makes very cheap stuff and depends on constant advertising to sell their cables, but when I bought those I was on a tight budget and I got them really cheap. There again was a very noticeable difference in sound quality when I switched my speakers to the BJC cables. I highly recommend all products from Blue Jeans Cable including this subwoofer cable available on Amazon. You can order directly from the BJC website, but I would look for what you want on Amazon first, especially if you are a Prime member, because of the great Amazon customer service and 2-day shipping for Prime members. Overall, once I switched to BJC cables I noticed a more spatial, cleaner, basically better sound. This is made possible by the more efficient delivery of clean power and unobstructed information transfer. I plan to replace all of my HDMI and coaxial cables with BJC products in the next week or two.   ★★★★★ Little pricey Verified Purchase Little pricey, but being American made i didn't mind spending the few extra bucks. Shielding is great, was a little worried with the cable rat nest i have going on in this set-up. But absolutely No interference making it through these cables. When your equipment is in the 10k range, spending $30+ on a few cables shouldn't be much to whine about. Plus you know your helping to keep an American company in business.   ★★★★★ Ultra-high quality, US made, reasonably priced. What's not to love? Verified Purchase Do yourself a favor and skip the overpriced Audioquest cables and go with Blue Jeans Cables for whatever it is you may need! I got this since I needed a shorter run due to moving my sub. I went from a very cheap RCA (all I had that wasn't 20FT) and the quality/volume difference was astounding! Well worth the extra bucks. Plus, getting a US made product is always incredibly nice and a massive plus.   ★★★★★ Good cable upgrade Verified Purchase I was using the $10 media bridge cable that Amazon sells and I always felt like the bass was kind of muddy even though I’m using a $500 subwoofer. I thought I would try a better cable and sure enough I was able to turn up the bass more without it getting muddy because the clarity had improved so much more.   See more reviews
Custom Questions & answers
Question: What is the primary conductor solid copper (ofc), stranded copper (ofc), or copper clad aluminum (cca). also what gauge or mm? Answer: Solid ETPC copper, 24 AWG. Thanks, Kurt BJC   Question: Will the lc 1 cables work the best for differential balanced inputs on my amps or should I get single ended Answer: I'm not at all sure what you mean so need to ask you to clarify. Let me explain: Balanced inputs will ordinarily never be run through RCA jacks -- because an RCA is inherently an unbalanced connector, with only a signal and ground, and a balanced input requires two signal conductors and (usually) a ground. On very rare occasions we have seen balanced connections where there are two unbalanced RCA connectors in parallel, one of them to carry the "plus" signal and the other to carry the "minus," but that really is quite uncommon. If you have balanced inputs that accept XLRs, they should be fed a balanced signal from a balanced output. If you have unbalanced inputs that accept RCAs, they should be fed an unbalanced signal from an unbalanced output. If you're trying to feed an unbalanced input from a balanced output, or vice versa, this can be done but can be problematic. Thanks, Kurt BJC   Question: What is high quality about this cable besides good shielding? The gauge is awfully thin, so that can’t be it. Everything else seems standard? Answer: The wire gauge should be thin -- this is a high-impedance circuit for which conductor resistance isn't meaningful within extremely broad limits, and the thin AWG makes it possible to maintain extremely low capacitance. But the two principal attributes of unbalanced ("RCA") analog audio cable are just those: shielding, which is exceptionally heavy on this cable, and capacitance.   Question: Will the bass be more noticeable with this cable? Answer: It is a really well made cable that will not detract or add to the signal. It is all I expect from a cable   Question: What does the other end look like? i need bare to single male rca for my subwoofer Answer: This is terminated with RCA plugs, like the one in the picture, on both ends. One note: if you are going "bare" to RCA, be sure you know what you're doing. Usually when we hear that sort of thing from people they're feeding line-level into speaker level, or vice versa. Line-level into speaker level will generally fail to make any meaningful amount of sound. Speaker level into line-level may blow out the input stage of whatever device you're going into, resulting in a need for repair or replacement. If you are indeed going line-level to line-level with bare wire needed at one end, you could cut the connector from one end, pigtail and tin the braid and terminate that way. This might not be the best cable for that, simply because the braid is so heavy and the center conductor's quite small, but it depends very much on your soldering skills and on how much stress the bare-wire connection is likely to bear when in use. Thanks, Kurt BJC   Question: Does it have a built-in ground wire (with spade lugs) on both ends? Answer: No, it doesn't. Kurt BJC   Question: Hello my preamp has two inputs and so the subwoofer, do I need two of these cables pls.? Regards. Answer: I don't understand your setup. I just have an A/V receiver with only one output for the Subwoofer. Therefore, I only used one cable from the A/V Receiver to the Sub. I haven't had any problems with the cable. Sorry I can't be of more help.   Question: What is exactly Taversoe crimp plugs? Answer: These are our own brand of RCA plugs -- they are a three-piece crimp design, meaning that a pin is crimped to the center conductor of the cable, then the pin is inserted into the main plug body, and then a sleeve is crimped over the shielding to secure the plug mechanically to the cable and complete the ground path. Kurt BJC   Question: In other words, flake making (causes shorts) etpc copper in a thinner gauge is better than thicker non-flaking oxygen free copper cables? Answer: No, this doesn't flake. It's very well annealed. The purity of ETPC is as good now as many types of OFC, too -- it's used in almost all communications cabling. Small differences in purity do make for small differences in conductivity, but again, that's not a factor in a line-level interconnect which is a voltage-driven, low-current, high-impedance circuit.   Question: Is this cable available in a 6 foot length? Answer: We don't offer this in a 6 foot length on Amazon currently, because we haven't had enough demand to stock it there. But I'll take a look and see if this is something we should add. We do sell it in stereo pairs in a 6 foot length on Amazon -- same cable, just that there are two of them and the strain relief boot color is different. If we do add it, it's not likely to show up as available for purchase on Amazon for a week or two as we have to create a new catalog entry and then send inventory to the FBA warehouses. Kurt BJC   See more questions