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Senn plugs from Meier audio in diy cable

post #1 of 7
1/25/05 at 4:27pm
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I received my Senn plugs from the Europe group buy - with thanks to Magsy and of course Jan Meier.

I had some Van Damme cable and wanted to make a replacement cable for my HD25SP cans.

Here's the original steel cable:





as you can see the wire is thin and the connectors very small.

The Senn plugs come with some cable and have been cut just below where the cable divides. I trimmed back some of the insulation to see the inside:





I found that you could pull the small plastic join off the leads, on one it took the sheathing and on the other it slid off. Using a meter i checked and found the Red lead is Right, Blue lead is left and the White leads are ground.

To match my van damme cable I stripped the white back to wire and merged this with the braid and made 2 leads. Then joined(soldered) the two leads of each cable to the leads on the van damme.

Used some heatshrink to insulate/strengthen the joint. Shown on my HD25sp with new velour pads and a better jack.




The result works OK, much to my amazement.

The join closeup:




Now to get some nice cable/sheathing and do a cable for the HD600/650s
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post #2 of 7
1/25/05 at 4:35pm
Looks good!

Stock cable looks awfully similar to the HD25-1 steel cable judging from the connector and the pressed steel plugs. Any words on improvements in sound yet ?

What did you use to heat up the heatshrink ?
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post #3 of 7
1/25/05 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by Daroid
Looks good!

Stock cable looks awfully similar to the HD25-1 steel cable judging from the connector and the pressed steel plugs. Any words on improvements in sound yet ?

What did you use to heat up the heatshrink ?
It sounds fine but I'll need to swap back to the old and do a proper compare. The pics don't show the heatshrink (which I heated with a lighter), that's insulating tape showing. I'll replace that with some better heatshrink and lose he ziplock bump.

Jan Meier recommends using as little as possible of the original wire so I can always re-use this set, it makes it easier when you know what's inside.
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post #4 of 7
1/25/05 at 5:44pm
Thanks for the pics. I was wondering how much wire there'd be and what the plugs look like.

To use as little of the original wire as possible, I plan on cutting the wires off 1/2" or so from the plugs.

I'm going to use Canare L-4E6S cable which has four wires and a shield. The new cable will be split into two parts at the new "Y". Each pair of wires will be twisted. Several "coats" of heatshrink will cover the solder joints and the plugs, providing insulation and a bit of mechanical strength. I'll probably put some heatshrink on the "Y" for strength. I don't think it will be possible to heatshrink each twisted pair without a set of solder joints at the "Y".

- Eric
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post #5 of 7
1/25/05 at 7:11pm
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Originally Posted by Jan Meier
Manufacturer/Dealer: Meier Audio

Hi Magsy,

"Jan's cables don't have a big Y on them, much less than a stock cable.
By splicing in you lose a bit of this precious cable.
Its usable spliced, infact its probably fine for most but I would like a little more there."

Be aware, inside this cable is not the same as the Oehlbach cable
that I have sold. The insulation is clearly inferior.
My recommendation is
to make the piece of cable to the connectors
as short as possible.

The connectors were cut below the Y-split for the simple reason
that this assures that L-Mark and R-Mark connectors come together.

Cheers
Jan"
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showp...1&postcount=64
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post #6 of 7
1/25/05 at 9:28pm
pls pls pls resize your images.
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post #7 of 7
1/25/05 at 10:33pm
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Originally Posted by skyskraper
pls pls pls resize your images.
StevieDvd, hi I agree with skyskraper,
crop and resize
will make it better for us to apreciate your good work.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Is freeware graphic program
and only 856kb takes only a minute to download.

You can resize your pics there, etc, etc...
Irfanview also make scans of notepad files, YES!
Very good free program.




Great DIY StevieDvd !
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