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[XxATOLxX]

Originally Posted by Illah

Custom EMU0404 Breakout Cable

- 20 AWG Silver-plated copper mil-spec wire, teflon housing
- WBT 4% silver solder
- Tinned copper braided shielding
- Radio Shack DB9 D-Sub connector
- Radio Shack D-Sub Metal Hood
- Dayton Audio Pro-Fi locking RCA plugs
- Some Techflex & heatshrink to make it pretty

Tutorial: Build your own EMU0404 Breakout

--Illah

Thanks for the tutorial I'm going to be making one myself this Thursday when my parts are here.

[HiGHFLYiN9]

Wooh, balanced leatherheads! Nice and clean Alex. What type of wire did you end up using?

[ayt999]

Originally Posted by HiGHFLYiN9

Wooh, balanced leatherheads! Nice and clean Alex. What type of wire did you end up using?

some 30AWG silver-plated copper I litz braided a while back and had around. just wanted to test to see how they sound balanced.

[headchange4u]

ayt999

That is a really nice recable. I like that sleeving. How does it sound?

I also must say that I love those headphones. They are beautiful with the leather on them and I also like the way the headband is made. What model Audio-Technicas are those? Are those the AT-DHA3000?

[jerb]

not quite, they're the Audio-Technica ATH-L3000 Limited Edition Leather Headphones. Extremely beutiful IMO

[Jam_Master_J]

This thread sure has been active. I feel left out. Luckily, I'm working on some cables tonight (2 x RCA, 1x Digital Coax) and should have some pictures to post soon.

[Jam_Master_J]

Got some new work to show. Unfortunately the pics didn't turn out too great. I'll get some better ones someday.

Anyway,

2m Digital Coax
Beldin 1695a Cable
Canare RCAP-C53 connectors
Heatshrink and techflex

This one was very easy to put together even without a real coax stripper. I like the mechanical crimp designs quite a bit after trying this. The picture looks weird though as the black tech flex is causing some weird effect with the camera:




1m Stereo RCA pair
Beldin 89207 cable
Miova locking RCA connectors
Techflex

These came out very nice, the finish on these connectors is excellent. I need a better pic of these too though:

[headchange4u]

I've been looking at the same connectors on Ebay. They look sooo nice. The same seller has some pretty impressive looking cables also. How do you like them

[ayt999]

Originally Posted by headchange4u

ayt999

That is a really nice recable. I like that sleeving. How does it sound?

thanks for the compliments. I tried to do my best in keeping the quality of the recable on par (or at least as best as I could) with the headphone. I wish I had a better sleeve selection though since techflex cannot compete with the stock L3000 silk-covered cable. that stock cable is pretty much the best and most overdone cable I've seen.

I'll post impressions and comparisons between the balanced ATH-L3000 through a variety of balanced amplifiers, and the ATH-L3000 unbalanced through the AT-DHA3000 amplifier (an amplifier specifically made by AT for the L3000) later on somewhere in the Headphone Forum, hopefully within a week.

[Jam_Master_J]

Originally Posted by headchange4u

I've been looking at the same connectors on Ebay. They look sooo nice. The same seller has some pretty impressive looking cables also. How do you like them

I'm very happy with the connectors. They look simply amazing in the right light, especially the candy apple red ones. They were pretty easy to work with, the strain relief is captured by a screw which I like alot more than a crimp style. Fairly easy to solder, although I would have liked a drilled hole in the ground so I could loop through to make it more solid while soldering.

The locking feature is nice too but I found even when unlocked the connectors were very tight initially.