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I use Transfil, but I recently fitted a Jagwire racer kit to someone's bike and was impressed with that: compressionless brake cables with a spiral outer section at the start, to ease fitting along the bars.
Good selection of fittings and a complete gear & brake kit was only £18 from Wiggle.
Wiggle also have Lifeline compressionless cables, which I've seen recommended on here.
I cut cables with a Dremel now, for a clean finish, but if you use cutters then it's worth carefully filing the end flat. Bending the outers to the shape they will take on the bike before cutting, will reduce the need to file: the strands will be different lengths if you cut the outer when it's straight..
The heat from a Dremel can melt the inner lining, so have a thick needle or length of cable handy to quickly push through to open them up.
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Any chance you could name a few good cables as I'm tinkering with DP brakes for the first time in years. I have bog standard shimano housing and wondered if I'd get a boost from upgrading.
Ta