DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 25

Interesting. But it doesn't sound like something I'd want to use to recable my Grados. Regular cable making sounds okay though. I'll try to pick one up this week.

First ever mass recabling attempt!!!:

I just got my first shippment of parts for cabling. 18AWG and 22AWG silver plated copper wire w/ teflon coating. Plugs, and loads of techflex. So here they are with a short spiel after each one:

I'm a great fan of eichmann cables which I use for my speakers, so i've carried over the eichmann ratio onto my own personal cables.



Obvious what this is. My hd580s deserved a nice rewire since they now have a nice amp. 18/22AWG wire for GND/Sig respectively, covered in black and clear techflex. Terminated to a cheap and nasty gold plug which is to be replaced with a nice one next week. Oh and other end terminated to senn connectors


This one runs from my computer to my amp. 18/22AWG silver wire again Covered in black and white techflex, and terminated to a 3.5mm cheap plug and some cheap and nasty RCAs.


This one runs from my main amp to my headphone amp. 18/22 wire with black/white and red/white techflex. Terminated to Cardas gold plugs.


My fav from the bunch These run from my cdplayer to main amp. 18/22 wire with Black/Clear and red/clear techflex. Terminated to WBT midline locking plugs which are much nicer to deal with then cardas. I feel like i'm not scraping the gold clean off em.

good job, is that a stain I see on the wbt cables! keep them prestine!

I like the white mesh look

regarding the silver copper wire, I suppose you litzed it, but why not just even guages rather then varying?

completed these just now

There is no stain on the cables. It's just coloured techflex covered with clear techflex. I love the end presentation of this combination. It does strange and wonderful things when the light bounces off it just right.

The two different wire thicknesses 18awg and 22awg are an application of the Eichmann ratio which is used in Eichmann series 4 and 6 interconnects, and the series 2 speaker cables (which I use at home). The theory is by making the ground conducter larger the current flow is eased and sound is improved. In practice they simply sound good and I think a lot of the muddy bass that is normally associated with interconnects is eliminated.

The ratio is not mentioned on the site however one of the reviews on another site chopped it up and put up the cable specs. 22/18 awg for signal/ground

Sounds like a good idea to me. Your ground can never be too big. Unless of course it's too large to attach.

made this cable for Church

Did you get those from Home Grown Audio or is there somewhere less expensive to buy them from?

Yet another "my first cable" - still waiting on the missing jack for the others that should have been done by now...

Simple but effective, Blue canare starquad, Calrad 30-319 male and female jacks, black flexwrap - which as you can see is run over the strain reliefs on the jacks, which show through at the ends.



The blue just barely peeks through, kind of cool looking. Took longer than it should have, but at least it works and sounds great

Yup, I got them from HGA. They ended up being cheap for me cause the shipped me 4 when I ordered 2! I offered to send them back and they said to just keep them.



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Impressive cable you got there!

Coming from you that's high praise! THANKS!

It came out nicely, although the pictures did not. What can I say, there's two lights in my attic workshop and they just don't cut if for still photography. I want to get all my cables (4 so far) together for a little shoot during the day sometime as the other 3 that I've made ([2] mini-minis and [1] mini-rca) are pretty nice as well. Two of them use orange tech flex covered with the carbon and I really like those. They were for a friend who has an orange fetish .

Here's a pic of the two carbon colored cables side by side, one uses two layers, the other just 1.

Both use Home Grown Audio's Diva braid (4-stranded silver), Neutrik Gold Mini's and of course the LOK's for RCA's.

Nate

I just made this one right from a personal request,

I rarely make cables upon request though. I dont like repeating the same cable design, but this solid core wire sounds just too good to not share it with others

heres a pic

I didnt know there were such a thing as heat shrink pants

I assume it was just dual wall pinched at the split.