Juggernaut -- Yea, as I stated above, I actually have about 100ft of mogami cable. I spent several days 1 month ago making a new mogami snake and several XlR cables. And not long before that, I completely wired my studio since I just built it this summer.
So, needless to say, I was not at all bummed out about spending 2 mins at the guitar center counter and buying two monster cables which would have cost me $65 for only $45, rather than getting all my tools out and playing fuck-fuck with my solder gun. Not the deal of the century, especially considering I had the wherewithal both in materials and capacity to do it myself for free. I'm just over making cables for a couple of months. =)
Sonic -- My friend just dropped off his 266xl. I'll demo it against that just for shits and giggles... I"m gonna look for the 166 on ebay; hopefully I find a decent one. Not sure I'll buy right now though...