DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 174 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

EFN · 10-08-2006, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by VR6ofpain

This reminds me of a cable I made that I called the 'shoe string cable':

sorry about the bad lighting

DANG! Twins separated at birth LOL!

matthewcarlrose · 10-08-2006, 08:34 AM

I shamefully admit this is the first cable i have constructed with this degree of care, previous to this the rest have been pure function over form!

It was built solely for the purpose of allowing me to try my cheapy Shure IEM's on my Millet Hybrid, all of the parts where obtained from a UK Electronics supplier (MAPLIN) and it uses no boutique parts whatsoever. The flex is standard nylon type covering unsheilded, silver plated multistand copper (teflon outer) - arranged in a simple braid 1 over (2 over 3). Plugs again are Maplin own brand and are covered with shrink wrap.

I intend on creating more cables as time progresses ultimately wanting to recable my HD650's. Starquad interconnects are next on the list though for comparison with my bought cables.

Matt

EFN · 10-09-2006, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by matthewcarlrose

I shamefully admit this is the first cable i have constructed with this degree of care, previous to this the rest have been pure function over form!

That's a VERY neat work for a first timer!

EFN · 10-09-2006, 04:35 AM

Detachable Headphone cables (Mini to Dual Mono) for my MS-1.

Lucent Systimax CAT5:

Canare StarQuad:

I am comparing those two right now and will post about them sometime later

VR6ofpain · 10-09-2006, 05:11 AM

OUCH!

EFN · 10-09-2006, 05:55 AM

AWWW....have to redo the plugs jsut to get those heatshrink fixed

mb3k · 10-09-2006, 06:05 AM

EFN, do you find that the cable unplugs easily due to the weight of the cable?

EFN · 10-09-2006, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by mb3k

EFN, do you find that the cable unplugs easily due to the weight of the cable?

They stayed in tight. I used high grade stereo mini jacks (un-named Japanese) which has been resoldered to mono. I choose 3.8mm jacks because they are stouter than the smaller 2.5mm. No problem so far and they are sonically good.

werdwerdus · 10-09-2006, 08:17 AM

I was thinking of doing something very similar. A couple inches from the cup of my headphone put an in-line female mini jack so I can have one long cord for home use and a short cord for portable or w/e. You're method looks more factory though.

EFN · 10-09-2006, 09:05 AM

Hey thanks. I was lucky because Grado have generous space at the back of the driver to fit in Full Sized 3.55 female jacks. I think it will be tougher if you wanna do it on a KOSS portables