Pulled a Gotham GAC something out of a cable bag and am genuinely surprised how good it is for a simple, inexpensive interconnect. I haven't used it for some time. I remember some bad WH review but it is imo easily comparable to the £50 or so QED. If I remember right the Gotham cost me a tenner or so. Nice.
Which brings me to the point of this thread ... a bit of soldering and metering which I haven't done for some time. I have ordered a length of good quality, thick and well braided mains cable and a german made, plated plug. I will solder it directly to the board, no connectors. I have also ordered a 2m length of Furutech wire which I will make some interconnects from, RCA's not determinded yet.
Furthermore, some copperfoil is on the way which will be used to screen partitions of the receiver and I had this crazy idea of potting the substantial transformer and filling/isolating it with tar. If it is good enough for McIntosh ... just have to find a friendly gipsy doing a driveway! (I dont suffer transformer hum/noise but a bit of interference shielding can't be a bad thing). The digital board will be screened in its own enclosure too. Speaker cable will be next but I haven't decided on the detail yet. The Trafo is big and good and the supply caps are twin 15000uf Nichicon Fine Golds though I might add to that with a couple of 10000 Elna for Audio's which I still have.
It will fill a bit of spare time over Xmas ...
regards