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08-13-2005, 12:51 PM
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headchange4u: Nice work with that mini » RCA cable, what do you have over the split? And no offense, but that iPod line out cable you made is pretty darn ugly 
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08-13-2005, 01:22 PM
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This is my old iPod-connector, made from a Belkin-connector cannibalised from a battery-pack, microphone-cable and a customised 3.5 mm mini-plug.
Pictured with the PocketDock, a connection I never use anymore as it picks up any electric noise present and lets you listen to it with the music!
Am making a new connector with the connector from "ridax" (the first one), and a cannibalised Cardas mini-to-mini connector, as the 3.5 mm plug-housing on this is molded and small enough to allow easy use of the switches on the SuperMacro when connected.
Internal shielding of the iPod-connector is very important, to avoid picking up noise as with the PocketDock!
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08-13-2005, 03:11 PM
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headchange4u: Nice work with that mini » RCA cable, what do you have over the split? And no offense, but that iPod line out cable you made is pretty darn ugly |
I used a piece of 3/8 H/C Pex line (water line) frome Lowes for the Y section of the cable. Fits over Star Quad w/ sleeving perfectly.
No offense taken. Your honesty is appreciated. The iPod connector looks a lot better in real life. It sounds REALLY good so I can learn to live with it not being the prettiest cable in the world. I plan on making a iPod connector > Mini and an iPod connector > RCA using Cardas 24x4 in the near future.
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08-13-2005, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by headchange4u
I used a piece of 3/8 H/C Pex line (water line) frome Lowes for the Y section of the cable. Fits over Star Quad w/ sleeving perfectly.
No offense taken. Your honesty is appreciated. The iPod connector looks a lot better in real life. It sounds REALLY good so I can learn to live with it not being the prettiest cable in the world. I plan on making a iPod connector > Mini and an iPod connector > RCA using Cardas 24x4 in the near future.
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You could make it look 'better' or at least more 'ipod'. Carefully slice off the red shrink tube and remove the 3.5mm plug. Put white techflex over the braided wire. Use white shrink tube on the ipod connector side and then get a neutrik "L" (6mm entry) nickel plug and just use the 'cover' if you want to keep the gold, because chrome/silver matches white more than black. Or you could cover the black 'cover' with white shrink tube too. Just an idea. THat way it will look better...because you said it already sounds good.
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08-13-2005, 07:41 PM
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You could make it look 'better' or at least more 'ipod'. Carefully slice off the red shrink tube and remove the 3.5mm plug. Put white techflex over the braided wire. Use white shrink tube on the ipod connector side and then get a neutrik "L" (6mm entry) nickel plug and just use the 'cover' if you want to keep the gold, because chrome/silver matches white more than black. Or you could cover the black 'cover' with white shrink tube too. Just an idea. THat way it will look better...because you said it already sounds good.
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I have white SPC wire and white Techflex, and silver Neutrik connectors. I was never my intention to make it look "iPod-ish". I wanted it to look custom. I've also been in this non-Techflex mode here lately. I also really like the red,yellow, and orange Litz braid normally, but it does not look that good in this application. The next ones I make will be Cardas so the will be blue, and may end up getting some white Techflex. I am definatly going to remove the red heat shrink and replace it with black, or like you said, white or black heat shrink over the entire cable.
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08-13-2005, 08:57 PM
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What is that shiny black over some peoples techflex? Sometimes it black or silver, but it looks like another type of techflex? What is it!?
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08-14-2005, 10:41 AM
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Oh I thought you either had made or were making an amp it would be compatible with 
I had the notion of converting all my headphones and amps to 4 pin XLR, but then it would be pretty tough to ever sell them. |
Hahahah amp's comming, taking longer then expected though. Cable actually sounds much better then senn original cable, even through a connector.
Little Jo40 that shiny stuff is often a camera flash  , but sometimes like my earlier cable somewhere near page 25 had clear techflex over black, or some other people use chrome techflex under black, there's a few ways to do this.
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08-14-2005, 08:24 PM
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Ah chrome techflex? Interesting, I may need to get some to make my cables better looking lol
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08-18-2005, 02:37 AM
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Alright, Ive gone to teh techflex website looking for the all popular black\beige, blue\beige, black\red techflex but cant find it there, Nor on parts express or makertek, am I blind? 
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you need to purchase those specialty colors form a tech flex specific distributor,
markertek and partsexpress sell limited colors.
try wirecare.com and cableorganizer.com
they have the colors you are looking for,
wire care has more variety but are more expensive then the prepackaged colors partsexpress sells.
If you are going to order from wire care, Id suggest you order in bulk quanities to make the costs worthwhile. the longer lengths you order the lower the cost is per foot.
ogre is the garden snake looking flex, black beige is one of my favorites to use with my cables, and spyder is the red version of black biege. except in smaller diameters spyder just looks like black with red tracer.
you can snake chrome under any flex for a shimmer look. it works best on high contrast combinations, i.e. white on chrome doesnt look that great.
1/4" diameter is the sizes you guys should be looking for diy, I see a lot of people order 3/8" which is far too large for mini cables.
wire care has so many colors to choose from its great, its like an artist working with a large palette.
I havent ever seen blue beige, chances are its black beige over blue insulation.
Im starting to see the same style flexes used over and over in the thread. Littlej040, I like to see some different styles in the gallery  , if you do place an order, try something others havent done before, add a little flavor to the gallery threads.
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08-18-2005, 10:04 PM
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Heh Ill definately try out some wild colors, Thing is I dont have a digi camera! all my cables I've built so far are dying to be up on this thread But I havent gotten a picture of them yet.!
I pm'd headchange4u earlier questioning a mini -> rca cable and It seems I've been doing it the much harder way. Ive been splicing 3 cables, 2 for the rcas and 1 for the mini respectivly. Instead he suggested just trimming back the wire and Using the bare wires for the rca leads. Im a moron for not noticing that in the first place. How can you make these bare wires, besides just heatshrink beefier and Thick like the starquad that I am using. I mean Techflex will just make it a tad thicker, nothing that much though. I cant wait to do this on my next cable! DOH! im a dope! 
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Home Rig: Foobar ASIO 2.0 out-> Esi Juli@->MHDT Labs Dialogue II->Gilmour Lite v.2->HD 600\ ATH-A900s\HD 595
vinyl Rig: Music Hall MMF 2.1-> Audio Technica AT440MLa cartridge -> Cambridge Audio 640p phono stage-> Kenwood KA-880SD-> Jamo 68 Bookshelves
Portable Rig: Apple Ipod 15gb->SendStation Pocket dock->RSA Hornet M->Etymotic ER-4s\ Koss KSC-75\ PX200
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08-19-2005, 01:55 AM
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My best unbalanced Emu 1212M all Canare Neon cables. Made of all Canare connectors and cable. This one has the shield braid soldered to the ground cable, on the source side only. They look really cool, because of the neon green techflex. Like all my paranoid cables, every single connector wire is insulated with green electric liquid tape.
How it sounds?. Don’t know yet. Later on, my impressions.
Update: To my surprise, they weren’t sounding too good, when I connected to my 1212M. They sounded fine but I noticed that the some bass freqs and separation were missing, compared to my previous cable. Well, I started testing the cable. The cable was perfect, but when I connected the 1/4 canare plugs to my 1212M, I noticed that the plugs were touching each other, so both grounds were in contact. As soon as I isolated both plugs, the bass and the beautiful sound came back. It sounds awesome!. What I learn from this?. DO NOT USE 1/4 CANARE PLUGS WITH YOUR 1212M!, unless you are planning to use some kind of isolation between the plugs. They are too big for the soundcard jacks. Period.
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08-19-2005, 02:21 AM
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mmmm neon green. 
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08-20-2005, 07:22 AM
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This is my first time making cables. My first one is a pair of cables for my E-mu 0404. I decided to shorten the cable (Canare Star Quad) and then re-use the Canare RCA connectors (F-10) from the previous person's cables (got them for free when I bought the card). Then I used some Canare 1/4" connectors (F-15) for the other end. It's a little over 2 ft. in length.
Here's the second cable I made, a RCA->RCA that I plan to use from my DAC to amp. It's star quad with Canare F-09 RCA plugs.
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08-20-2005, 08:05 AM
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my first pair of diy cable, i have to say this stuff look easy but take a lot of effort to make... i have to say all of yall got a lot of tallent in this stuff
teflon silver plated 20 awg
with vampire rca and dayton 1/4 gold
here's a second one i just made
neutrik mini to mini
teflon silver plated 24 awg
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