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[grandenigma1]

Originally Posted by ronstah

5 mm2 power cord. it's behind my Rotel RCD-02

someone likes the braiding!

[RnB180]

speaking of braids,
my first attempt at a 6 wire braid.

[headchange4u]

I have not had much time to work on cables here lately, but I had a chance to sit down tonight and make this......





Pure silver solid core wire w/ Teflon insulation (from group buy) in a 4 strand Litz braid
Neutrik 3.5mm plugs
White Techflex
Kester silver solder

This cable was really small but sounds great. This was my first pure silver cable and I must say not bad at all. Here's a pic of the braid...

[headchange4u]

Originally Posted by RnB180

speaking of braids,
my first attempt at a 6 wire braid.

Thanks to your help, RnB180 I finished braiding my headphone splitter cable the other day. This is a 6 (22AWG s.p.c.)strand Litz braid that goes into 2 tri-braids. I still have to put connectors on it, but I will post pic when done.



I really like this color combo. I ordered the orange,red, and yellow wire with the intention of creating a "flame" look. It turned out better than I hoped. I call it my "Dragon's Flame". I am in a delima on how to cover the wire, if I even put any Techflex on at all. I like the look of the naked wire. Carbon Techflex gives it a smokey look, which I like.

[JWFokker]

I regret techflexing my cables. I don't like the texture. I don't think it would look as good with the carbon techflex.

[The Monkey]

Headchange4u, is that teflon insulation chrome-like or is that just the lighting?

[RnB180]

Originally Posted by headchange4u

Thanks to your help, RnB180 I finished braiding my headphone splitter cable the other day. This is a 6 (22AWG s.p.c.)strand Litz braid that goes into 2 tri-braids. I still have to put connectors on it, but I will post pic when done.



I really like this color combo. I ordered the orange,red, and yellow wire with the intention of creating a "flame" look. It turned out better than I hoped. I call it my "Dragon's Flame". I am in a delima on how to cover the wire, if I even put any Techflex on at all. I like the look of the naked wire. Carbon Techflex gives it a smokey look, which I like.

Good stuff, I thinkn your 6 conductor braid is different from mine, as yours looks like a litz style and mine looks like a chain link type braid.

[RnB180]

Originally Posted by The Monkey

Headchange4u, is that teflon insulation chrome-like or is that just the lighting?

its silver with a clear coating of teflon.

with some beautiful shot under some great lighting.

Headchange,

I would skipped the white flex and sleeved that braid into a clear tube so that it can be seen, IMO the flexing hides its stunning looks. when you have something like that show it off!

[headchange4u]

Originally Posted by RnB180

Good stuff, I thinkn your 6 conductor braid is different from mine, as yours looks like a litz style and mine looks like a chain link type braid.

I noticed the difference in our braids. Mine is basically a Litz braid technique that I modified for 6 strands. I did quite a bit of searching trying to find different ways of braiding 6 strands, but most were to confusing.

In all honesty I like your braid better because of the shape and the way the wires are braided looks better. I wish you could explain how it was done, but I know explaining braiding techniques is a little difficult.

Originally Posted by RnB180

I would skipped the white flex and sleeved that braid into a clear tube so that it can be seen, IMO the flexing hides its stunning looks. when you have something like that show it off!

I would have left the Techflex off, but this was silver wire from the group buy and it already had Teflon insulation on the wire. The Litz braid ended up being REALLY small so I decided to cover it. The solid core wire also retains bends more than stranded cable which also was another reason for the Techflex. It just made the cable look a lot cleaner and nicer. I also left the heat shrink off the connectors because a friend of mine always complains about me covering up the connectors. The cable ended up being very "danity" as my wife calls it.

Originally Posted by The Monkey

Headchange4u, is that teflon insulation chrome-like or is that just the lighting?

Just the lighting I used. Teflon insulation is kinda shiny anyways.

I spent some more time comparing this pure silver mini with a Star Quad mini last night. The difference in the sound of the two cables was pretty apprent. The silver cable was a lot brighter and lacked fullness and punch in the bass compared to the Star Quad. After a couple of hours of listening I decicded that I really don't care to much for the sound of the silver. I am thinking about doing a 6 strand braid with one copper conductor and one silver conductor for each channel. I think that this may offer the best of both worlds; the brightness and detail of silver with the warmth of copper. It may also sound like crap, but you never know until you try.

I have also decided to go with naked wire on the splitter cable above. I will dress the Y-section up with some heat shrink, but that will be about it. I will post pics when done.

[HiGHFLYiN9]

Rewired the new Sennheiser HD201 using silver plated copper in litz and a switchcraft mini.



I posted the detailed steps in another thread, you can find it here: http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1467213