I had a left-over interconnect that I thought I would recycle into a new headphone cable. It was a mini-mini with Mogami Neglex. I cut an end off, soldered it to the left ear. I was tempted to take it a bit further and replace the wire that goes over the headband. I found some solid (not stranded) Cat5e Ethernet cable and I took 4 single wires and ran them from the left to the right ear. Everything works but I'm kind of disappointed. I don't know if it's real or not but it sounds like the right ear has slightly less volume but more bass. I've sat with it for 2 days listening to various things and I keep coming back to that. I used Foobar to downmix stereo music to mono so both drivers get the same and it sounds like they're both perfectly fine, no volume or bass loss.
Is this all in my head or would 4 strands of Cat5e have that much impedance to alter it?
I'm thinking of re-doing it with some other wire or perhaps just putting the OEM one back on but that's kind of defeat in my book lol.
Is this all in my head or would 4 strands of Cat5e have that much impedance to alter it?
I'm thinking of re-doing it with some other wire or perhaps just putting the OEM one back on but that's kind of defeat in my book lol.
) had a short. That was actually good that it happened because I saw the tiny wire and how those solder points are set in the driver plastic, now I'm MUCH more careful.
