Hello,

I play music from my PC Sound card to my 2270.

Looking for suggestions for well priced shielded cable: Male 3.5"" -> Female. From there I put on a Y w/RCA's.

Running it 25-30' in basement room above removable ceiling panels. Lot of
other wires under the tiles also. Concerned about inteference from the other wires.

Thanks
NJA

Sounds like an ideal situation to make your own -- any good with a soldering iron?

dew.

I'll second what dew042 said - it'll be a lot easier and cheaper to make your own cable to do the job in one neat run, which also eliminates any adapters and such that could cause problems later on.

Failing that, I'd recommend looking at some higher end car audio cables for a cheap solution before looking at "proper" audiophile-grade interconnects, since many/most are very well shielded.
If you do that I'd also suggest using a 3.5mm -> L/R RCA adaptor lead and then a full run of 30ft RCA cables, rather than the other way around - not only does it restrict what you can use the cable for less, but it also means you have a wider choice of wire in the first place!

Oh, and keeping the volume on your PC at maximum and only using the controls on your amp to set the listening level is good, too... That way you have the highest possibly SNR down the cable, and a little bit of hum (probably inevitable) will be a lot less noticable :yes:

Dew: Haven't done it since I was a kid. I have one and it's about time I use it! Thanks for the motivation.
Got a list of parts and suggestions where to obtain them? Got to be specific if you have time though, lots is new to me and I gotta/want to learn. Thanks!

Aydin: Thank you also! Very interesting about the run that is using long RCA's with the Y adapter at the computer. Never occurred to me. The car stereo wire thought as a temp solution (or maybe a real one) is brilliant! Lots of interference in a car.

With regards to the volume. My 2270 is about 25 ft away from the computer. When my wife calls or the phone rings I'm on the computer so I control the volume at my computer.
**I would love to be able to control the volume with a remote device hooked into the Marantz so I can control the volume and mute it also. If either of you has any suggestions for that type of remote I'd really appreciate that. **

Thank you,
Nicholas

I've seen a fair few small remote-controllable preamps, basically input switches with an attenuator. I'm assuming that you don't want to spend too much, but that's a possible option...
If you want to go the DIY route, there are schematics floating about on the 'net for a few different IR designs. Some require basic knowledge of PIC programming, the better ones (IMO) only need you to make a reciever, and can learn from any remote :D

All you need is some STP (shielded twisted pair) cable and the appropriate 3.5mm ends. Personally, I like the single run of cable with the splitter at the stereo.

The drain wire becomes the common then one wire of the pair is L and the other is R. You can probably buy a hunk of this down at the local home improvement store for $0.50/ft or less.

There is no real concern for loss in the wire because of the high impedance of the circuit so you don't need any big, thick stuff.

STP cable (http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=100-246)

Of course, that's 100ft so you'd have lots of leftovers using the single run method, or you could make the two individual cables with it....and still have leftovers. ;)

You could always just try this one (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021802&p_id=651&seq=1&format=2) from Monoprice for $7.99. No major loss if it doesn't work out.

These 3.5mm connectors is one place I'd get the gold flashed connector, for sure.

Not because it creates "synergy", or adds tonal balance, or any weird stuff.


The 3.5mm connectors don't have a lot of contact area.
I've seen the lower contact resistance on the gold flashed shell/shield/ground connector add a couple of dB to the noise floor.