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FallenAngel - Since it is enamel coated, couldn't you do away with the teflon tubing and just run them naked?
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Termination is done with Yarbo gold plated non-magnetic brass connectors. Sure, they say "Germany" on them, but I haven't seen them anywhere except Hong Kong stores Still, they're nice quality connectors.
I have some chrome ones that look pretty similar to that. Never got around to using them, although they are some of the coolest looking RCA's I've seen. Must have been fun stripping all that cat5. I'm sure the braiding took hours upon hours.
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...couldn't you do away with the teflon tubing and just run them naked?
The effect of the dielectric teflon is beneficial since it reduces the ability of outside electric field fluctuations to effect the conductor (and the signal thats passed through them), and reduces the ability of the signal in the conductor to effect the outside too... <thinks>.. man.. I don't remember my physics.. I'm missing something.. anyway.. its the dielectric thats beneficial
Pretty satisfied with the result of this, except for the fact that it's GREEN. The Ogre techflex is fine, but I didn't want any on the wires going to the earpieces and I only had the right size heatshrink in green.
EDIT: Turns out the heatshrink is microphonic. I guess it is about time I invested in some multifilament sleeving.
I had a little 10" piece of Cardas 4x24 wire left so I made this 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter using Neutrik locking 1/4" plug with the lock removed and a SwitchCraft 3.5mm plug.
It matches my DIY Cardas Sennheiser cable much better than the Grado adapter I was using before, and sound better too
hey fallenangel,
Is partsconnexion the cheapest place to get Cardas in Canada?
Thanks
As far as I know, yes. Percy Audio in US sells it at $5.75/ft though, so depending on the size of the order, but it might not be worth it considering shipping costs and import fees. I'd stick to PartsConnexion, it's a great place to shop.
Here are mines. I have a great cable ready for my D2000 but forgot to take pics of it. The first ones are my im716 and the next are A130's I did for a friend. I couldn't sleeve it cause I had to make an extension which was too big for my techflex to fit over.
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1. If there are any german cable builders here, where do you get your parts?
2. I should be able to source some 26AWG solid silver plated OFC with kapton insulation. I found that the outer diameter of the kapton wire is 0.61mm while a similar teflon insulated wire has 0.99mm
Given that AWG26 has a wire diameter of 0.4mm this would give in comparison: Teflon epsilon_r = 2 width of insulation 0.59mm,
Kapton epsilon_r = 3.7 width 0.2mm.
Kapton is a worse insulator but only a third as thick. This should be a very nice wire.
Is this thought correct or is there something I'm missing.
Still, they're nice quality connectors.
I'm sure the braiding took hours upon hours.
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