DIY Cable Gallery!!

[Little J040]

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!?

[Garbz]

Originally Posted by HiGHFLYiN9

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.

[Little J040]

Ah chrome techflex? Interesting, I may need to get some to make my cables better looking lol

[Little J040]

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?

[RnB180]

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.

[Little J040]

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!

[TURBO]

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.

[Sduibek]

mmmm neon green.

[strid3r]

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.

[James281]

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