DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 106

Now that I have paid some more attention to this issue I feel like there is a change. The old description - groovalizer - is not accurate any more. The lows have been tamed a bit and the highs are slightly more present. This is hard to believe by myself. Could this be the result of recabling?

I have now compared these to my DT880 (pre 2005) and Grado RS1 (with ported Z-flats). I almost like DT 531 over 880's.

Bper, are those canare connectors covered up with some black heatshrink (I think it's heatshrink or something?)

Looks like it.

I'm so happy some people other than me have been doing stuff, I was getting all worried after no one posted for about a week.

Here's a picture of two cables I made recently:



The one that you can see all of is a power umbilical cord using Neutrik Speakon connectors and the other is an AC power cord that uses a traditional 3-prong AC plug at the wall end and a Neutrik Powercon connector at the amp.

Nate

Could you post pics on how you wired the Neutrik Speakon connector?

RH

Do you want the cable connector or the chassic connector. The cable might be somewhat difficult to show since it's rather tight in there once it's all put together. But if you just want pictures of one disassembled I can do that, I have more of them

Yes, I used the Canare narrow profile RCAs and the 1/4 inch plug and the rcas are covered in black heatshrink to keep the techflex from shifting too much, mostly because I didn't feel like JBWelding the techflex!

Next time, if you feel like it, try running the techflex all the way inside the jack and use the crimp to hold the techflex in place. It'll allow you a bit more freedom when it comes to whether or not you want to use heatshrink. I'm not saying your cables look bad (they do not ) just that you shouldn't feel like you have to use shrink.

Yeah, I've done that before too, but I've got about 15 more cables in the works, and I really don't mind the look of the Techflex. I've got a switchbox in the making, and it is going to be for AB testing, so I need output cables also from all my amps! Lotsa cables!

Are canare connectors considered the best bang for your buck connectors? I'm beginning to not care so much about using wbt's or whatever as they are expensive, and I see a lot of people are using canare w/ starquad and stuff in this thread.

Cable connector.

RH

Try them out and see.

No photo

I think he's asking me to provide a picture of the Neutrik Speakon cable connector .

rofl, I just woke up when I wrote that. Silly me.

A pic, lol.

RH