DIY Cable Gallery!!

[colonelkernel8]

Originally Posted by grailer

Yes, Pear Cable's Anjou ICs have a Kevlar jacket: (http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou.htm).

They should be very durable, to be sure, but Kevlar as a dielectric isn't as good as Teflon or natural fibers like loosely-woven cotton.

mmmm, $1000 for a 0.5m pair. Nice.

[colonelkernel8]

Yeah, I think the teflon techflex would be a little more appropriate. Kevlar is overkill in every respect, except if you wanted to tow a car with your $1000 interconnects, or if you wanted them to be able to survive a journey through an in-sink disposal.

[Fitz]

Kevlar isn't that esoteric or unique these days, though. I think there's a dozen or so pairs of speakers with kevlar cone drivers sitting around ready to go out to various jobsites, where I work. And they're anything but expensive.

[skyline889]

Built another to replace the uneven lengthed one, it was annoying the heck out of me.

[FallenAngel]

Just finished my first Sennhsier cable for my HD600's. After butchering the connectors of an HD650 cable and learning how they're made up inside, DAMN! This was definitely a hard job. Even soldering the things without melting the plastic housing was a pain. Happy to have it finished and love the results. I thought the Alessandro MS2's were detailed, but wow. Listening to a few songs over again and hearing things I never paid attention to before. It really livened the headphones up.

Cable makeup
24AWG 99.99% Solid Core Silver
100% pure unbleached cotton tubing
Braided until Y-Split and covered in Polyethylene Sleeving
Y-Split up parallel runs covered in Nylon sleeving
Neutrik NP3X-B 1/4" Plug

[mADmAN]

im curious...

for headphone recables, whats the length most people use from the Y split to the headphones??

[XFxGeforced]

Originally Posted by mADmAN

im curious...

for headphone recables, whats the length most people use from the Y split to the headphones??

i did the split at about the top of my ribcage, and it's pretty good length. Could be a little shorter, but I like it.

[soloz2]

I usually make the split about 12 inches from the end

[luidge]

Originally Posted by FallenAngel

Just finished my first Sennhsier cable for my HD600's. After butchering the connectors of an HD650 cable and learning how they're made up inside, DAMN! This was definitely a hard job. Even soldering the things without melting the plastic housing was a pain. Happy to have it finished and love the results. I thought the Alessandro MS2's were detailed, but wow. Listening to a few songs over again and hearing things I never paid attention to before. It really livened the headphones up.

Cable makeup
24AWG 99.99% Solid Core Silver
100% pure unbleached cotton tubing
Braided until Y-Split and covered in Polyethylene Sleeving
Y-Split up parallel runs covered in Nylon sleeving
Neutrik NP3X-B 1/4" Plug

Great cabling Fallen! I would love to do one pair myself and i find Canare to be to laid back and mellow, i believe the Senn cable would be better then canare. And i find cardas to be to costy so pure silver seem to be the way. How much does it stacked up to for all the parts?

[FallenAngel]

Originally Posted by luidge

Great cabling Fallen! I would love to do one pair myself and i find Canare to be to laid back and mellow, i believe the Senn cable would be better then canare. And i find cardas to be to costy so pure silver seem to be the way. How much does it stacked up to for all the parts?

Thanks, I do beleive it was worth it. I'm actually about to build a Cardas version hopefully this weekend if I have a chance to fit it in between the SOHA and MHHA builds.

Price wise you're actually looking at similar costs between Cardas 4x24 and pure silver in cotton (a little less for teflon).

It's a fairly short wire, about 4 feet long and cost around $40 in materials + $15 for original HD650 cable for connectors, it's the work on it that takes a while and is very delicate.