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__________________ I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?"
"This much", He answered. Then He opened up His arms and died.
-anonymous "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein my headfi feedback
yea it was easy, though the stock soldering in the original grado was really crappy. I have problems getting the left signal to stick, not like the silver solder I was used too, this was was just blobbed on. So it was trickey for me since the stock solder sucked IMO, it took seconds to cool. There was soo much solder the Grado factory used it was difficult to get a good mechanical connection, the copper leads had a tendency to float in the pool of solder rather then stay down and cool. took me a few tries hold the lead down with needle nose pliers and the right hand trying to solder and no touch anything else.
I usually use the flux core rat shack silver solder, I just heat stick cool in less then a second.
__________________ I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?"
"This much", He answered. Then He opened up His arms and died.
-anonymous "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein my headfi feedback
that star quad cable is pretty heavy for a headphone cable and the dual flexing makes it a bit stiff. Microphonics isnt an issue. You may hear slight flex micro phonics but I added shrink tubing to areas that absorb most of it. You dont hear any microphonics at all if you are listening to something. You hear light micropphonics if you listen for it and play nothing through the headphones and purposely rub the cable against the corner of table or something.
__________________ I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?"
"This much", He answered. Then He opened up His arms and died.
-anonymous "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein my headfi feedback
It's quite tempting for people like myself who are prone to burning things, people and myself unintentionally. I have no idea how hot a regular soldering iron gets (or should get for cable making). Is this one hot enough?
but then the sony d-11 sounds great with grado, It gives the warmness that the gradoes greatly need. i test it out on more components for critical listening later.
it does seem to sound airier,
dunno how much of it is just in my head.
__________________ I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?"
"This much", He answered. Then He opened up His arms and died.
-anonymous "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein my headfi feedback
__________________ I asked Jesus, "How much do you love me?"
"This much", He answered. Then He opened up His arms and died.
-anonymous "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein my headfi feedback
It's quite tempting for people like myself who are prone to burning things, people and myself unintentionally. I have no idea how hot a regular soldering iron gets (or should get for cable making). Is this one hot enough?
Good question, I think they have been discussed elsewhere in th DIY threads, Rat Shack sells them now too.
Scott
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Home Rig: Transit USB -> Headsave MiniMe -> Grado SR125 / Beyer DT990 Pro
Portable Rig: Cowon D2 8GB w/8GB SD Card Firmware 3.55 -> Mini 2 Mini->Xin Supermini-3 -> Shure E3c / KSC-35
It's quite tempting for people like myself who are prone to burning things, people and myself unintentionally. I have no idea how hot a regular soldering iron gets (or should get for cable making). Is this one hot enough?
I'm actually borrowing one now out of curiosity and have played around with it a bit... It's great for small quick stuff cause it really is instant heat and cooling. Because of the nature of the tip (it flows current across a forked tip), it doesn't work for all jobs and you have to be careful with sensitive equipment, because bridging pins with the tip could be fatal to the component.
For more information on how it actually works, I suggest downloading the manual at www.coldheat.com in the support section. That should help give you an idea if it will be useful to you.
Edit: side note, ColdHeat is now a Coleman product, so you can also find this in normal stores now sometimes, so you may be able to find it on sale for significantly less than Thinkgeek. Makes it less of an investment, and more of a handy extra tool.
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