Support Head-Fi.org by
starting all of your
Amazon.com shopping by
clicking here.
____________________________________________________________________
Today's Featured Head-Fi Blog: A Japanese headfier's monologue (Sasaki)
____________________________________________________________________
Please help
support Head-Fi by becoming a Contributing Member
CLICK
HERE -- Contributing Members, thank you
for your generous support! --
I was referring to techflex, but I wouldn't put anything over a premade cable.
Oh. I just realized that the poster wanted to decrease microphonics on the exposed wire part. In that case, cotton and multifilament would do the best job.
Regular techflex is nylon. Multifilament techflex is nylon. Multifilament just has really thin strands of nylon.
Sorry to say, you are in the right direction but not quite.
As far as I understand it, Nylon is a Polyamid (PA) and most regular braided sleeving is polyethyline (PE).
Although commonly used to identify braided sleeving, Techflex is only a brandname and they sell both Nylon and PE braided sleevings, the difference between regular PE and Nylon multifilament is very big.
Nylon multifilament sleeving will hardly expand wheras regular PET can expand twice or thrice its size.
ps "The Federal Trade Commissions' Definition for Nylon Fiber: A manufactured fiber in which the fiber forming substance is a long-chain synthetic polyamide in which less than 85% of the amide-linkages are attached directly (-CO-NH-) to two aliphatic groups."
__________________ iQube V2 coming, read all about it here
Find our cables and DIY parts webshop here: www.qables.com
I just got some new plugs today and thought I'd try a couple out.
And the last one is a quick xbox-usb adapter for ROMs
sorry for piss poor quality.
__________________
---------------------------- Team Objectivity
---------------------------- "Sometimes I wonder if this whole scene is just some sort of a sick experiment on the power of suggestion put on by a team of sadistic psychologists." -Dept_of_Alchemy
------------------ Feedback -----------
Sorry to say, you are in the right direction but not quite.
As far as I understand it, Nylon is a Polyamid (PA) and most regular braided sleeving is polyethyline (PE).[/i]
You are right that PE is more common. However, Techflex does sell monofilament nylon techflex, which is very similar in construction to the PE techflex, if not identical. I should have referred to PE techflex, though, since it is more common than monofilament nylon techflex..
My first cable, it's 19 strand 22 AWG silver wire (4 lengths) with neutrik gold plated connectors... not amazing but it'll do for connecting a sonic impact T-amp to a laptop and some small speakers.
Another modified K340, this time in balanced configuration. Hopefully I can make it to the upcoming Sydney meet and be able to hear this out of a balanced amp (currently I have hooked it up directly to the speaker terminals of Cyrus 8).
Knocked up a couple of different ipod docks tonight...
The first dock is a simple ofc dock, shielded, neutrick jack.
The next is a little nicer, 19 strands of silver plated ofc per channel, each individually sheathed in heat shrink and polyester and then braided. the braid is oriented to allow for an amp to be connected alongside a ipod, rather than the traditional underneath method. neutrick jack.
Lastly, but certainly not least, the same silver plated ofc config as above, but longer and terminated with neutrick rca jacks.
Because of the gauge of the conductors (and because i wanted to use the smallest connectors available for asthetics), i had to do a lot of dremel work on both the ipod connectors and the neutrick mini jacks. overall very worth it though, smaller conductors dont look or feel as nice! each has been potted and sealed with two part resin. im very pleased overall, look out for these in the fs forums (after some extensive testing)!
Because of the gauge of the conductors (and because i wanted to use the smallest connectors available for asthetics), i had to do a lot of dremel work on both the ipod connectors and the neutrick mini jack
Seems to be the exact same jacks as I used, fitting 4 pieces of 22 AWG wasn't all that easy, first time even soldering. To be honest I was surprised it worked.
Really like yours though, the braiding looks a lot better than the cheap stuff I used
Linear Mode
