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VR6 Congrats on rewiring the portas, did you have any difficulty sealing up the little plastic box? Think it was worth the trouble?
Garbz I assume that's a Switchcraft 4 pin mini XLR, they don't give you much room to work with do they The miniscule opening for the wires is annoying as well. I think it's something like 2.8mm. Nice work with the Senn connectors too. I'd take the mini XLR over one of those anyday.
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VR6 Congrats on rewiring the portas, did you have any difficulty sealing up the little plastic box? Think it was worth the trouble?
Garbz I assume that's a Switchcraft 4 pin mini XLR, they don't give you much room to work with do they The miniscule opening for the wires is annoying as well. I think it's something like 2.8mm. Nice work with the Senn connectors too. I'd take the mini XLR over one of those anyday.
Well they do sound a little different. I believe that there seems to be more high frequency extension, but I will have a better listening session at work where I usually listen to them connected to my PC.
In looking at Garbz's cable, which I might add looks very nice, I though about how cool a translucent plastic connnector with the wires visible within. I have seen others do that style with the middle dremel'd out and then hot glue, but why doesnt anyone then cover the whole connector with shrink wrap, for a cleaner finish?
Where does Zu Cable get their HD-580/600/650 connectors they use? Made in house?
edit: Oh and no, I simply put a dab of superglue on each side of each box. Pretty much perminant I guess, but I don't plan to put the old wires back in, since they are bargin basement crap wire, and the connect is very flimsy. though they definately made the portaPro's more portable compared to my recable. Not an issue for me though, since I only listen while sitting down. I am not a fan of 'streetin' with headphones on. I like to hear what is going on around me.... (personal taste)
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The reason I didn't cover it with shrink wrap is the massive difference in diametre size. The middle of the connector is probably 5 times wider then the the cable itself. I would have prefered heatshrinking it to cover the otherwise messy glue job, but there's simply no heatshrink out there which can cover it all with one diametre. And no i'm too lasy to use thoes heatshrink sheets and make a cone out of them
Hiflying yeah that is a switchcraft connector I believe. Quite the bit more difficult then neutrik XLRs since the plastic isn't soldering friendly, and I even managed to melt one of the pins I found the senn connectors easier to solder, but definitly not easier to open though
The reason I didn't cover it with shrink wrap is the massive difference in diametre size. The middle of the connector is probably 5 times wider then the the cable itself. I would have prefered heatshrinking it to cover the otherwise messy glue job, but there's simply no heatshrink out there which can cover it all with one diametre. And no i'm too lasy to use thoes heatshrink sheets and make a cone out of them
Hiflying yeah that is a switchcraft connector I believe. Quite the bit more difficult then neutrik XLRs since the plastic isn't soldering friendly, and I even managed to melt one of the pins I found the senn connectors easier to solder, but definitly not easier to open though
You don't think 3-to-1 would work? Is there enough clearance in the actual headphone to clear it (if say it would work)? What do you think about the translucent connector thought? Don't you think that would look slick? I guess you would need a mold and then to pour in some type of fluid plastic (heated), which would then cool and stay in that shape. $$$$ I assume.
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garbz 3-1 or evem 4-1 shrink should work as long as you are not covering the portion that enters the jacks.
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Once I was done with the 650 cable I decided to put the stock cable to good use. As some of you remember I also recabled a pair of MDR-V6's. I put that stock plug to use too.
I decided to recable my Koss KSC75's since I wanted a little longer cable then stock and I am addicted. That and had extra stock stuff laying around . Let me know what you guys/girls think.
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did using the senn cable actually make a difference in the sound of the ksc75? seeing all of this is making me want to recable my ms2 and sr225.
yeah I guess they would look cool, especially if they didn't have the bubbles showing that my connector has. RnB the connector doesn't worry me really, the cut is on the inside so the casual passer wouldn't even notice it, and it's not THAT ugly.
I'm much more concerned by the fact that my heatshrink has the specs written on the side whereas professional stuff doesn't, but then this was 1/3rd of the price.
Fureshi it probably makes them sound worse
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The miniscule opening for the wires is annoying as well. I think it's something like 2.8mm. Nice work with the Senn connectors too. I'd take the mini XLR over one of those anyday. 
I found the senn connectors easier to solder, but definitly not easier to open though 
. Let me know what you guys/girls think.
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