DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 251 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

threEchelon · 06-29-2007, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by firefox360

Seems like the earlier portion of the cable is relaxed, while the later portion is concentrated and tightened...

If you are using the cable for a headphone cable, you definitely want a "relaxed"

braid, as it will have less microphonics.

xnothingpoetic · 06-29-2007, 09:25 PM

The wood cups (cocobolo) for the ms1 is being made by someone right now.

vixr · 06-29-2007, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by threEchelon

If you are using the cable for a headphone cable, you definitely want a "relaxed" braid, as it will have less microphonics.

I was going to use the red,white and black one for interconnects... the all white round braid was just for practice. I notice everyone keeps the braid sorta loose.

Soymilk · 06-30-2007, 02:04 AM

what kind of wires are you guys braiding for your interconnects and headphone cables? is it anything special, or just would any insulated silver plated copper be good? i saw spools of wire at work, 30 and 24 gauge, there's probably 26 and 28 around somewhere too, not sure, but they were both teflon insulated (well the label said teflon, i assume that was the sleeving material right?) silver plated copper. would three strands of the 24 gauge work for a mini-mini interconnect? and if i wanted to make a headphone cable, i'd probably want to find the spool of 26, right? (24 being too thick and 30 being too thin)

drizek · 06-30-2007, 09:01 AM

Check out seller navships on ebay for wire.

Make sure that the wire at your work is actually real teflon, they label a lot of cheaper quality material as being Teflon when it really doesn't have the same properties as the real thing.

Soymilk · 06-30-2007, 10:08 AM

hm, i guess ill write down the product number or whatever that's on the sticker on the side of the spool and look it up next week.

koike · 06-30-2007, 05:04 PM

hey vixr what kinda braid is that? square?

threEchelon · 06-30-2007, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by xnothingpoetic

The wood cups (cocobolo) for the ms1 is being made by someone right now.

Hmm... did you layer the techflex? If so, do you have any idea how the microphonics of the layered techflex compare to just multifilament?

threEchelon · 06-30-2007, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by drizek

Check out seller navships on ebay for wire.

Make sure that the wire at your work is actually real teflon, they label a lot of cheaper quality material as being Teflon when it really doesn't have the same properties as the real thing.

Beware, FEP gets the teflon branding but want you really want is PTFE, which is the true teflon.

Soymilk · 06-30-2007, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by threEchelon

Beware, FEP gets the teflon branding but want you really want is PTFE, which is the true teflon.

thanks for the heads up, i'll make sure i check that.

assuming it's all good though, what gauge would i want to use for my ic? would three strands of 24 gauge be good for a mini-mini? and should i try and hunt down some 28 gauge for headphones, or would 30 be good?

i wrote down the digikey # for the electrolytic caps we have there, they're panasonic fm caps

i'll probably use some of those for my pimeta, save a few bucks.