DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 247

My K701 recable, using Van Damme SPOFC/OFC starquad, Neutrik 1/4" jack, Gremflex PET 5 braided sleeving, various heatshrink.

They look very fine. Gorgeous recable but is that really nylon?

Look like techflex to me.

it's Gremflex PET 5 polyester monofilament expandable sleeving
http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/90586.pdf

so yes, it's like Techflex... a lot of the time, in the UK at least, it is called nylon braided sleeving on component retailers' sites... I guess using "nylon" as a blanket term for polymers, including polyester and polyamide

and no, it's not really nylon, it's polyester (PET)

Neat!
..and not just the cable, but the whole 'phone.

Great work mate..

I like No Furutech TRS? Think postie tried to deliver my cable on Monday Bryan (See earlier post), Have to wait until Saturday to pick it up tho I'll post up pics of it in all it's 'connected' glory when I get home

Thats exactly what I plan to do with mine (oh, and a DT770 headband cushion as I seem to have a miniscule melon in comparison to the average going by the Denon design spec. ) - If only I had an easier time trying to source the Mogami in the UK

I DIY it today but it's not finish

Looks like you are making a breadbasket lol.

All these wonderful cables has inspired me to make some for myself. I can't wait for my tools and components to get here.

It's really fun !
Im haven't got more times, but it's take me one day

Lovely. Those big flat braids are one of my favorite.

Very good! It is good fun.

Nice job! One of these days I plan to recable my K701.

- How did you make the hole for the right side entry?

- What is the heavy black material that you used to go through the entry holes for strain relief?

- Do you notice a difference in the sound now?

The earcup has two small white parts... when you take the headphones apart, and cut/desolder the original wires, you can work on these parts separately... let's call them the inner part (nearest to the ear) and the outer part.

The inner part I used a rotary tool (like a Dremel) with a small cylindrical sanding bit. I made a slight groove to match the one on the left side.

For the outer part I simply used a round file and hand-filed a long notch.

The black material is some insulation from the Van Damme cable, there is adhesive-lined heatshrink on the inner side, to stop it being pulled through the hole.

How does it sound? Well, the K701s already sounded amazing when amped and using silver/OFC interconnects. The improvement is admittedly subtle, and hard to place any major changes, as there is not much a massive amount of room for improvement (relative to other upgrades in the chain) I guess. The bass has improved ever so slightly, and the soundstage is a tiny bit wider... the most significant change is a general one: the fine detail has opened up a bit more, so vocals and delicate percussion is reproduced with even more finesse.

My first RCA to mini IC using CAT6 cable:

RCA plugs were cheap eBay plugs, and mini is a radio shack plug





No Y split, so its all ghetto, but it works well!

The Canare Starquad have been gutted out and only the sleeving was used. Then they are re-twisted with two silver and two StarQuad coppers.