How to make an interconnect Step by Step With Pics - Page 18 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

Voodoochile · 08-20-2004, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by brschmid

i use my old Rat shack iron to cut techflex and shrink heatshrink.

Same here. I knew it had a purpose in life!
I actually filed the tip into a sort of knife-shape as well.

redshifter · 08-20-2004, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by hottyson

DON'T LAUGH! You have got to be kidding! How could I not laugh when I read that? Thanks for the good one. I needed that!
heehee

glad i could help.

can anyone give me a link to the switchcraft gold right angle 1/8" stereo plug? i've been googling for it but cannot find it.

brschmid · 08-20-2004, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by redshifter

glad i could help.

can anyone give me a link to the switchcraft gold right angle 1/8" stereo plug? i've been googling for it but cannot find it.

you know i have never been able to find those either.

and actually you are not supposed to mixed different metals in the connections, so unless you are using gold plated jacks as well, you won't get better performace.

i will try to get my links updated

redshifter · 08-20-2004, 10:40 PM

thanks brs. the link works now. i ordered the nickle ra minis. i also picked up 15' of starquad. i'll stop at ratshack tonight for a soldering clamp, some 4% silver solder and flux. if i'm able to make some decent cables i may try the silver cables next.

brschmid · 08-21-2004, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by redshifter

thanks brs. the link works now. i ordered the nickle ra minis. i also picked up 15' of starquad. i'll stop at ratshack tonight for a soldering clamp, some 4% silver solder and flux. if i'm able to make some decent cables i may try the silver cables next.

ratshack silver solder sucks. i don't recommend it, unless you are really good at soldering.

PYROTAK · 08-22-2004, 09:51 PM

when you guys talk about starquad are you talking about the normal stuff or the starquad mini?

Megaptera · 08-22-2004, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by brschmid

ratshack silver solder sucks. i don't recommend it, unless you are really good at soldering.

It eats my iron tips like candy. I used this latest tip on a CMoy, a Pimeta, a PPA, quite a few cables, and a few other minor things with no noticeable decay. I switch to the Radio Shack solder for the STEPS and by halfway through the tip wasn't useable anymore.

Originally Posted by PYROTAK

when you guys talk about starquad are you talking about the normal stuff or the starquad mini?

When I talk about it, I refer to what Pacific Radio labels L-4E6S Canare Star Quad. I do not think it is the mini cable.

PYROTAK · 08-23-2004, 06:53 AM

so i notice some people are making a single channel RCA using the starquad.

how does one do this?

braid the blues and whites together and use bunch as signal and 1 as ground?

seems a bit tough to me. if anyone has pics that would be greatly appreciated!

also HOW HARD exactly is it to put the starquad into the 3/8 nylon multifilliment?

and will that size nylon be able to shrink down to just hold the two conductors in a mini to rca cable? or is techflex just a better option?

Voodoochile · 08-23-2004, 01:33 PM

I tend to use the blue pair for signal, white pair for ground, then attach the shield braid to the ground shell only on the signal source end. Seems to work very well.

I've also made some ICs with Canare's GS-6 cable- they are very nice, and the cable is simpler to work with.

thrice · 08-23-2004, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Voodoochile

I tend to use the blue pair for signal, white pair for ground, then attach the shield braid to the ground shell only on the signal source end. Seems to work very well

Hmmm, I've never attached the sheilding braid like that. How do you indicate which end of the cable is which (source vs. amp) and what is the benefit of attaching the sheilding braid to source ground?

Thanks,
thrice