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I had been thinking about this for a long, long time and finally I did it!!!
I build myself a 999,9 (ppm) Gold cable.
Found a special company selling gold wire (guranteed purity) and ordered the precious goods. 0,4mm gold 1,5meter. My wife will kill me if she ever finds out!
The soldering was hard, the gold tends to be melted and driven out by the tin and lead. So fast and as 'cold' as possible soldering.
Teflon insulation and Venhaus winding technique.
And now everybody will scream: How does it sound????
Well nothing like I ever heard before!
The overall soundstage is so stable, nothing stands out or dissapears in the background. The whole frequency range is so in balance, it is unbelievable.
I really had to get used to it, so easy is the cable. At first you think you miss a lot, untill you discover that you hear a lot more.
I used a test CD track with a frequency sweep and compared a silver cable. You could really hear the silver drop of at 40Hz wheras the gold kept going under 35Hz before it died. In the highs the silver tended to ring a little. The gold kept absolutely neutral. In the high the drop off was the same (at 14.5kHz it started goin down and at 16 it was dead quiet) but that is probably due to my ears. The sweep with the gold did not 'move' up and down as much as the silver did.
I listened this both in WAV, Apple Lossless and 320k VBR but that last was hardly accepteable, you could really hear the difference.
Some will call me nuts but I just register what my ears tell me.
Hans.
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Im not trying to argue or anything, and I think that its pretty awsome that you went for it. But isnt the conductivity of gold lower than that of silver. I would guess that that means the gold colors the sound, in a good way from what you heard.
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Originally Posted by hoosterw
I had been thinking about this for a long, long time and finally I did it!!!
I build myself a 999,9 (ppm) Gold cable.
Found a special company selling gold wire (guranteed purity) and ordered the precious goods. 0,4mm gold 1,5meter. My wife will kill me if she ever finds out!
The soldering was hard, the gold tends to be melted and driven out by the tin and lead. So fast and as 'cold' as possible soldering.
Teflon insulation and Venhaus winding technique.
And now everybody will scream: How does it sound????
Well nothing like I ever heard before!
The overall soundstage is so stable, nothing stands out or dissapears in the background. The whole frequency range is so in balance, it is unbelievable.
I really had to get used to it, so easy is the cable. At first you think you miss a lot, untill you discover that you hear a lot more.
I used a test CD track with a frequency sweep and compared a silver cable. You could really hear the silver drop of at 40Hz wheras the gold kept going under 35Hz before it died. In the highs the silver tended to ring a little. The gold kept absolutely neutral. In the high the drop off was the same (at 14.5kHz it started goin down and at 16 it was dead quiet) but that is probably due to my ears. The sweep with the gold did not 'move' up and down as much as the silver did.
I listened this both in WAV, Apple Lossless and 320k VBR but that last was hardly accepteable, you could really hear the difference.
Some will call me nuts but I just register what my ears tell me.
Hans.
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Toshiba SD-9200 -> Fitz Mod SPC ICs-> FM JA Audio 6as7 12ax7 Amp Mazda grey plates-> F5005 & AKG K240 Sextets
Toshiba SD-9200 -> ICs -> [flea watt amp in the works] -> DIY full range horns Feedback
1st Gen Ipod Nano -> KSC75
i've done some cannibalization before, but this is the first cable i've made completely from scratch.
it's yellow Canare L-4E6S covered in black techflex with a Canare F-12 mini and a Neutrik locking 1/4" jack. it sure beats my ratshack adapter, but it's a bit heavy. if i had it to do over again i would make the cable a little longer and use smaller connectors. i also might have chosen to not use techflex, as it's a bit of a pain. oh well, live and learn. it meets my needs. i need to decide what i want to make next, as making it was a lot of fun!
Made a 1/4"-to-3.5mm converter. Used 4 leads of silver coated copper in teflon, and did two layers of PET. I never tried it before. It actually adds a lot of bulk to the cable, which is nice...plus the red below the carbon looks sweet.
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