DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 183

I found the thinner Mogami mini quad easier to work with. Pretty similar price too IIRC.

Perfectionism does you well.

Just finished making a headphone replacement cable from canare mini-quad, i covered it with nylon multi-filaments to reduce the microphonic.


(ignore the rubber bands... I use them as markers, black for left, white for right)

and here's the Y split. I used the covering for a switchcraft 1/8 plug to cover the split.




Not sure what I will be using these cables on yet. I am waiting for my SPC belden quad cables to come to replace my K141's cable... I do have a k518dj coming in, might use these on that one

oh.. here's what I did with the plug of that switchcraft cover:
i made it into a 75ohm adapter

got bored... here's a low profile LOD i made... I need to get some right angled plugs.



need advice on a suitable housing. I tried using the stock ipod connecter cap, but there was not enough space for the wires.
any ideas?

Encase it in epoxy, shave it down to a nice shape, and paint it, maybe?

ok... so here's the DIY headphone cable i made from a canare mini-quad on the K518dj



.. I like black

Hey guys,

I just finished my latest workings with SOLID core single enamel coated Cardas wire. Percy Audio has a crazy cheap price on this cable in 100 foot rolls, just get Teflon tubing and you've got yourself a fantastic cable at a great price. It is enamel coated, and is harder to work with, but check out my thread here for a really easy way to work with this cable. Using this method, it barely takes any longer than normal wire, just 30 seconds to prepare each wire beforehand.

I used 18AWG Cardas wire with 16AWG Teflon insulation because it's impossible to use 18AWG cable with 18AWG insulation, I've tried and promptly returned the entire roll to Percy Audio in exchange for the 16AWG roll. Yes, it's a shameless advertisement to his shop, but considering the service (in dealing with me and accepting the return so easily) and prices, I feel justified in saying it's a nice place to shop. Termination is done with Yarbo gold plated non-magnetic brass connectors. Sure, they say "Germany" on them, but I haven't seen them anywhere except Hong Kong stores Still, they're nice quality connectors.



Next, in preparation for my new speaker setup (yes, I'm going to the dark side of speakers as well and building some speaker stuff - LM3886 Power Amp, CKK-III as PreAmp with a nice Alps source selector), I've build a pair of speaker cables from CAT5e network cable using a slightly cut-down version of Chris VenHaus recipe. The cable is made of many-times braided 18 twisted pears of 24AWG cable for a combined around 11AWG per Signal and Ground (>9AWG entire cable)! Yeah, that's A LOT of braiding! Termination is in Yarbo Banana plugs and Vampire HDS-5 Spades.




So far, I don't know how the speaker cables sound, but the Cardas RCA-RCA is fantastic, even without burn-in, I think it's better than my previous Cardas Twinlink RCA-RCA with Eichmann Copper Bullets!

Love the black overall (down to the fat sleevings used throughout).

@FallenAngel:
Very nice cables! Especially your interconnects are eye candy.
Only these golden RCAs are a bit ... hummm ... decadent - at least in my eyes. In silver it'd be perfect!

keep up that good work!

best regards,
bearmann

FallenAngel - Since it is enamel coated, couldn't you do away with the teflon tubing and just run them naked?

The effect of the dielectric teflon is beneficial since it reduces the ability of outside electric field fluctuations to effect the conductor (and the signal thats passed through them), and reduces the ability of the signal in the conductor to effect the outside too... <thinks>.. man.. I don't remember my physics.. I'm missing something.. anyway.. its the dielectric thats beneficial

iPod LOD goodness for my car

Pretty satisfied with the result of this, except for the fact that it's GREEN. The Ogre techflex is fine, but I didn't want any on the wires going to the earpieces and I only had the right size heatshrink in green.
EDIT: Turns out the heatshrink is microphonic. I guess it is about time I invested in some multifilament sleeving.


Edit 2, now with more iPod dock.

I had a little 10" piece of Cardas 4x24 wire left so I made this 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter using Neutrik locking 1/4" plug with the lock removed and a SwitchCraft 3.5mm plug.

It matches my DIY Cardas Sennheiser cable much better than the Grado adapter I was using before, and sound better too