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[Zorander]

Originally Posted by threEchelon

Did you bridge pins 1 and 3?

I did, but it made the interconnects too 'hot' for my amps. So I re-terminated them so that pin 3 (-ve) is not in use, i.e. ground wire and shield go to pin 1.

[gotchaforce]

Originally Posted by cantsleep

havent done any work for a while.

recabled with cardas, 1m, 1/8'' switchcraft plug.
i think im going to be using this headphone until i get a new IEM or something..

what skin is that on the cable?

[threEchelon]

Originally Posted by Zorander

I did, but it made the interconnects too 'hot' for my amps. So I re-terminated them so that pin 3 (-ve) is not in use, i.e. ground wire and shield go to pin 1.

Ah, see you wrote that you have directional shielding. You should only have directional shielding if you are connecting Pin 3 to the Ground of the RCA plug. Then you use a directional shield connected to Pin 1 and bridge Pin 1 and 3. This configuration is meant for cross-coupled and transformer balanced outputs, since they have the same volume single-ended or balanced.

You don't have that type of output, which made the signal 6dB louder when you had Pin 1 and 3 bridged. The optimal configuration for your outputs is to have a single conductor and a shield, with the shield connected to Pin 1 (and the shield tab if you'd like) at the XLR and Ground at the RCA.

This website gives the optimal configuration for basic cable designs:
http://rane.com/note110.html

[werdwerdus]

(NJ3FC6) Neutrik NJ3FC6 Inline phone jack, stereo
(NP3C) Neutrik Stereo Phone Plug
4x 24guage SPC stranded wire (from navships on eBay, 2x black with yellow stripe on ground and 1x black with red stripe on each signal)
1/4" black Tech Flex
Cardas Quad Eutectic solder

[cantsleep]

Originally Posted by gotchaforce

what skin is that on the cable?

flame retardant (black with red)

[gotchaforce]

Originally Posted by cantsleep

flame retardant (black with red)

is this by tech flex or someone else... i am having trouble finding it

[werdwerdus]

Originally Posted by gotchaforce

is this by tech flex or someone else... i am having trouble finding it

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[odoe]

my first RCA-mini


next time, I'm going to use some sleeving.
I have some 26awg solid copper wire I want to play with too.

[colonelkernel8]

Is wire from navships, odoe? Very nice, simple, clean cable.

[odoe]

Thanks.
Yeah, I got this orange silver braid and some solid copper core from navships. I want to try a couple of wires mixing the copper/silver and see if it makes much of a sound difference. From reading around here, it seems to be more of a preference.