DIY Cable Gallery!!

[Tokenganjaclan]

Originally Posted by FallenAngel

Tokenganjaclan: Really thin heatshrink (without glue version), it's quite soft, no problems at all.

apatN: Looks like Mogami 2534 to me

Cool, I might give it a shot. Correct on the Mogami-It's the standard stuff. A guy wanted the bigger size so I made it up real quick. Nothing fancy but it sounds good and looks nice when on the cans..

[apatN]

I though it looked way too thick for 2534. Nice work anyway.

[FallenAngel]

People say that their Mini-Mini cables are soft... well lets see your portable cable do this!



Oh, did I mention it's solid-core The wire is 4x 26awg solid-core 99.9999% pure copper in Teflon with a layer of pure unbleached cotton over it. Cable is 1ft long.

The other cable I built today is a 1m pair of RCA-RCA cables: solid-core 18awg Cardas in pure unbleached cotton tubing with Yarbo copper RCA. In preparation for my new ESI Juli@.

[Ech0]

Finally got around to redoing the HD650 cable I had done before w/monofilament.

I've read that it's suggested to fill the cavity of the Cardas HPSC's w/epoxy or hot glue. The first time using a hot glue gun the glue was stringy and a bit of a pain. The second time I cut a small piece off a hot glue stick and trimmed it to fit on top of the cavity. Then melted it with a hot air gun. Worked better this way.

[gotchaforce]

Alright i finished one of my speaker cables after tooling around with different designs for a couple of hours.. now to make the other one. theyre a little over 3/4" thick

[Slaughter]

Nice gotchaforce! What are the specs? A power cable and speaker cable are next on my list.

Here is my first attempt at DIY cables and I am pretty satisfied. Some aspects were harder than I thought and some were easier. Picked up my parts at Redco.

A pair of 3ft Interconnects w/ shield grounded at one end
Cable - Mogami W2549 (Awesome cable BTW)
Termination - Neutrik NYS352
Sleeve - 1/8" XS100
Solder - Radio Shack 62/36/2
Cost - $17 shipped

*Update - I just listened to these and all I can say is that I am now a believer in cables or maybe not as skeptical. I was using some "directional" Monster Interlink 250 cables that I have had for years and these new cables are more musical, bass goes lower and more full, and vocal/instrument separation is improved.

[apatN]

I know. The Mogami 2534 sounded so much better than the cheapo mini-rca I used before. The biggest difference was in the presentation. It 'opened up'. Instead of a wall of sound, nuances appeared.

[MrOldboy]

I few questions from a audio nub.

I recently ordered some audio techica ath-m30s and my only legitimate complaint about them (before using them) is that the cable is very long (11 ft) and uncoiled. So this might be a problem at work for obvious reasons.

I was thinking I would do this

1) reterminate the existing cord to around 2-4 inches and end in a female 1/8". or male if thats easier.
2) either order or make 2 cords (both male-male). One long uncoiled one and one shorted coiled one for work. Maybe I would use the existing 10ft or so of the original cord to make one.

then I could use one for work and one for home.

I went through a lot of pages in this thread and couldn't find anything on it.

Also, about all these ipod-male diy cables I''ve seen posted. What are these? They go into the ipod usb output and output audio as if it was coming from the top headphone output? They seem really useful for me if they are what I think they are.

[cerbie]

They do not go to the iPod USB connections. The dock connector has pins right off the DAC, only degraded from noise and capacitance along the way to the bottom of the player. This is just wired to a stereo jack to go to a headphone amp. This way, the internal amp is bypassed.

[ingwe]

My second/third Apogee Duet breakout cable. Made two of these: one for recording one for play back. They look identical. I kept the total length short (I bought a long firewire cable).

Wire is 24 guage solid core UPOCC. The Sub-D 9-pin is from RadioShack and this time it has a metal hood. The RCA's are Cardas SRCA.

Heat shrink from Fry's. Cardas solder from parts express (about a year ago they had a good price, believe it or not).

The omnipresent glare of my first try (Canare starquad) is gone. I like these cables. I like working with solid core. I had fun making these.

Now I've got to get to work recording some vinyl and VHS hi-fi.





I filed down (with dremmel) the sub-d hood's metal lip so its flush with the connector. Unlike my first attempt, these are now solid.