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You take the wire on the left, cross it over five, and then back under two. Then you take the farthest one of the right, move it over five, and then back under two. You repeat this, and eventually you get a very cool square braid. Hope that helps
Sounds simple enough, but I can't get my mind around it. Would you take a picture of what it should look like at these stages.
Recabled another K340. This time I have to use a 'lesser' (but bigger) gold plug because the 'nicer' (but smaller) plug won't fit the 1/4" sleeving I used with this. I haven't yet done the screen mod but that is coming soon.
The useless elastics and worn pads have been replaced with brand-new ones as well.
Mmmm... fresh pads (thankfully our australian AKG distributors stock them)
This is how my latest project turned out.
Used the fat iPod dock and a Supra MP-8 3,5mm plug, and these are connected with a four brain of silver as signal, and a fifth one twisted on the outside of the braid as ground.
The interconnect
Connecting my iPod to the Go-Vibe V5
/Chopha
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DIY silver interconnect (iPod>3,5mm)
This is how my latest project turned out.
Used the fat iPod dock and a Supra MP-8 3,5mm plug, and these are connected with at four brain of silver as signal, and a fifth one twisted on the outside of the braid as ground.
The interconnect
Connecting my iPod to the Go-Vibe V5
/Chopha
Nice looking cable. I see that Supra has redesigned the plug a bit. Go Team Sweden
Sounds simple enough, but I can't get my mind around it. Would you take a picture of what it should look like at these stages.
The site http://www.stringpage.com/braid/medb...medbraids.html has a couple of small diagrams of the braid if you scroll down far enough. The braid really doesn't look like much until you've repeated the steps many times. If you can't seem to get it, I'll try to take some photos.
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This is my firm favorite. Since I broke my Right Angled Switchcrafts through "over soldering" I have to fix myself a new IC and it has to be Right Angled as well.
Then came this wild idea of using Cardas HP1 plugs (of course I will have to rip them apart) and combine it with the new 22 gauge SPC I have purchased thru eBay - I loved my Qables Silver before but this solid core SPC does have that appeal and I give it a shot
And yes indeed they do sound good! so good that I don't miss my bright Silver
Bought some silver wire and made some home i/c linking between my CDP/tubeamp/amp the cables are much stiffer than the normal OFC types.... wrapped in teflon dielectric insulator.
the silver cable cost S$25 per meter (is the price reasonable?) and the Amphenol RCAs cost $5 a-piece. terminated using silver solder, given FOC by the stockist.
New iPod docking cable that I made last night. Neutrik 3.5mm connector, white iPod dock and AWG20 silver wire (99.999%) covered with Teflon. AWG20 silver is hard to braid by the way
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