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Replacing entire headphone cable

post #1 of 13
11/10/09 at 11:38am
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I've got a pair of Grado SR60s and have had to resolder the connections and splice out bad sections of the cable several times. I'd like to just completely replace it with a new one, but I'm not sure exactly what I'll need, and I haven't been able to find a lot of places to buy the parts from.

I think that I'll need about 12' of cable, a Y splitter to terminate each channel into, and a stress relief for each earcup (to prevent the wires from being pulled out once they're soldered). 6' of cable from the miniplug jack to the splitter, and then 3' from the splitter to each cup. I'm not sure what type of cable to use, though. Grado sells a 15' extension cable, but it's about $40, which is a lot more than I'm looking to spend. I haven't been able to find the splitter or the stress relief things.

Of course, if I could just buy a new cable that had the splitter build in (like the stock one does), that'd be even better, but I haven't seen those anywhere.
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post #2 of 13
11/10/09 at 12:21pm
I'm pretty sure I've got an original SR60 cable lying around since I re-cabled mine earlier in the year. Nothing wrong with the original cable, but I wanted a shorter one for use at my desk at work. If you're interested, send me a PM.
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post #3 of 13
11/10/09 at 5:06pm
wait... how does that come out to 12' of cable? just get about 10' of some mogami, some adhesive heat shrink and 1/8" nylon multifilament. you can use the adhesive shrink for the y-split and stress relief at the cups. that would all come out to a more flexible and lighter cable. this should all come out to about $20-$25 including shipping.
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post #4 of 13
11/10/09 at 5:06pm
oh, oops.. you would also probably want to get a plug.
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post #5 of 13
11/19/09 at 12:58pm
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I ended up buying the original cable from Anonanimal, so that should last for awhile. I'm definitely not buying another pair of Grados, again, though. The sound is great, but the construction is *****.
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post #6 of 13
11/19/09 at 1:40pm
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Originally Posted by iandunn View Post
I ended up buying the original cable from Anonanimal, so that should last for awhile. I'm definitely not buying another pair of Grados, again, though. The sound is great, but the construction is *****.
so then why did you buy another grado cable? you should have bought some mogami.. that's far more flexible and cheap to boot.
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post #7 of 13
11/20/09 at 3:14pm
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This is just a lot quicker and simpler than trying to create my own.
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post #8 of 13
11/21/09 at 12:57pm
hey bik, where did you get your mogami? in canada 10 ft of that stuff is 16 bucks alone! with nylon multifilament, heatshrink and other stuff it could easily go over 25 bucks! I'd love to know a good place to get my wires
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post #9 of 13
11/21/09 at 1:06pm
well mogami - the mini starquad - is about $0.60/ft. i usually get it from markertec or redco.
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post #10 of 13
11/21/09 at 1:28pm
yeah, if you get it from takefive audio they mark it up to around $1.66/ft. CRAZY markup from my point of view.-_- So thanks for the pointers, I'll look into them.
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post #11 of 13
11/21/09 at 3:59pm
WOW! that's ridiculous. that's 150% markup... hopefully markertec and redco deliver to canada..
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post #12 of 13
11/26/09 at 3:40pm
You could also concider using Cat 5 cable to recable your headphones. I used some for my iGrado's and I thought it made a HUGE improvement. Way smoother and heavier bass.

Cat5 is really cheap.

I also used braided sheilding and nylon techflex to cover. I probably didn't need the sheilding because using the twisted pairs should be good enought.
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post #13 of 13
11/26/09 at 5:40pm
if you are willing to pay $1.66/ft for microphone cables, might as well get some 26awg OFC/teflon wires instead, from HGA. you can get 50' for $20, enough to make a 12' long 4-wire cable.
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