well, as my the new interconnect facilitating my direct injection plans has been delayed a few weeks i thought i'd have a go at making one of my own! so after impulse buying a soldering iron on sunday and a trip to maplins today i sat down this afternoon with an xlr plug, 2 phono plugs, 2m of coax and some silver solder. after 6 hours! much swearing, some burns and less hair than i started with, i now have a working 2 phono to 1 xlr cable for my 250. tested it with the variable outs from the squeezebox and it works fine - couldn;t go loud but it sounded pretty good too :eek: no doubt my soldering is laughably bad but it's taught me a lot and i'm going to have a go at soldering the internal wiring to my drivers next - instead of those horrible push fit terminals. probably do that next week though. much respect to those who make their own cables ,even more to those who do it commercially. cheers julian.