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Wow! Those are great cables!! Kinda reminds me of some of the headphone-cable replacements from Headphile.com.... anyways, Congrats
I see you love the StarQuad
Hey, quick question... what difference do 75 or 120ohm adapters make? I always forget. I'd be curious to try out a really high-quality ohm adapter on my system, because i'm interested what the results will be. Then again, I dunno if they work on the output of tube amps. But seeing as how yours are using 1/8" plugs, I assume it's best application is portable setups? Mine will probably be a 1Gig Shuffle + SR60 and PX200. with Pocket Amp V2 (similar to cmoy, roughly).
Thanks! Actually just got the starquad yesterday (ordered it for some microphone cable), and it was my first experience with it. Just went kinda wild with making cables since I had so many connectors and nylon lying around
As far as the 75 ohm vs 125 ohm adapters, i have no idea. I built the cables for my etymotic 4p's to convert them to a 4s. Frankly I cant tell much of a difference with ohm adapters, other than the lowering of the volume
here's a picture of a 8-wire litz braid I finished. I got some teflon tubes now, so it's eight ~1m lengths of the 24AWG solid silver wire in 22AWG teflon tubing braided in some sort of litz (I looked at my homegrown audio silver lace IC's and tried to imitate that). this is much more time consuming to braid than the 4-wire litz.
I don't want to braid another, but I need a pair of them to make some IC's. now to decide whether I should terminate them in XLR or RCA....
and a 1.5 ft mini-mini I made for my friend out of three runs of 24AWG solid silver wire each in 22AWG teflon, and the whole thing sleeved in FlexoThin. I think it looks cool, but he wants it covered in black sleeving (and concealing the nice silver wiring) for some reason.
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(setups currently with me... also have a PS1 & MDR-R10 sitting around) AT-DHA3000 -> Wyvern Audio extension cable -> Wyvern Audio 010 cable -> Qualia 010 CEC DA53 -> Accuphase RCA IC -> HeadAmp Aristaeus -> Sennheiser HE90
I ordered myself some silver to play with. Im gonna run them through my headphone rig.
Im doing a personal comparison between conductor types to see which metal and braid I like best for my rig.
So far Im really digging the straight star quad sound with my interconnects. I like them better then the 20 awg shielded teflon wire I had on my multichannel set up.
the DIY 4 braid litz interconnect with silver plated copper sounds very nice with my set up also. the copper star quad sounds a tiny bit muddy in comparison to the silver copper litz.
But Im a bit of a "mid" guy so the star quad cables are still in my set up . the bass is looser then the silver plated one.
Im a bit excited since I found some High purity silver wire to experiment with. So Im really curious as how it might sound on my set up.
what are your thoughts of conductor sonic signatures? so you notice any sonic improvement with a 2 or 3 conductor interconnect and the 8 conductor one?
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