Effect of silver cable on headphones - Page 2

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Originally Posted by estreeter 

What stuns me, UE, is the amount of time it takes many of us to realise that the mids are where the music lives. I havent read anything about silver in cables (any cable) that has made me want to dash out and pay for a silver cable.

Ya ,it took me almost three year from my first purchase ( crative EP-630).

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Originally Posted by chrislangley4253 

have I been saying effect instead of affect this whole time? *embarrassed face*. My silver cable is gonna be a side by side litz braid for the grados and he did something unique with the portapro cable to keep it flexible. I'll update with pics when they arrive this week. Please update when you compare your 60s and your 225s. I'd also recommend removing the driver cloth and maybe poking a few holes in the cloth behind the driver.. 2-4. you won't see too much of a difference with 2, if you like it though. I'd easily recommend 4 and that you don't go beyond that. Also, There is a lot of hype on putting dynamat on the back of the magnet of the driver. I did it, and I think it helped clean up the sound a bit. But, no promises seeing as I couldn't A/B it. 

 

-Edit- You can't remove the button on the 60s without moving the grille. I wasn't sure if you knew this or not :)

Ehh... I cringe about poking holes in anything and irrevocably changing it. I'm more about cookie cutter solutions to things. I like my driver cloth, it makes them look like speakers :D

I've heard a difference with just Mogami Gold microphone cable in place of what these normally come with. I wish Grado was upfront about exactly what they use in their cables, from the low end to the high end. I figure the recable on the 60 should yield quite dramatic effects in the midrange, also going to a 4 connector cable should reduce the noise floor as well. I read Bilavideo's thread on this and it wasn't around when I was messing around with cables for these and I was glad that he heard a difference too since I thought I might have just been crazy haha! HeadRoom has been pushing Cardas for years and all their cable compositions are super top secret meanwhile Homegrown Audio sells you the bleeding edge quality components so I mean even the respectable vendors still believe.

What I really don't understand is how I can benefit from a recable when I'm plugging into a Grado extension cable.... it's worked before though and it makes no difference if I use the extension cable or not so the Grado unit is very high quality apparently.

Interesting, slightly off thead, yesterday whist off work I was trying out various LODs to compare the sound signature, copper,copper/silver hybrid, and silver, the silver was  the best,more detailed and a slightly better sound than the others, small margins granted, but the better of the four , next best was the copper/silver hybrid. 

Digital cables ? A LOD cable passes an analog signal from your DAP to your amp - not sure what part of that makes it a 'digital' cable.

Put the pint down estreeter and reread what the lad posted...

Peete.

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Originally Posted by Pricklely Peete 

Put the gallon down estreeter and reread what the lad posted...

 

Peete.

fixed your typo, sir 

A gallon ? Meh - unless you two have got a KEG waiting, the evening will have to progress without me. And chicks. But no fat ones - my first wife is still out there somewhere - be afraid, be very afraid.

Er, where were we - oh yeah, that cable certainly looks nice, Chrislangley. Few of us are totally immune to the aesthetics of nice cables.