DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 295

some seller off ebay, not sure off the top of my head but not navships haha, he sells decent stuff though i got my tonearm wire off him

oh. well, either way, nice cables.

My first attempt at making my own adapters

All materials bought from local store,

6.3mm female - 3.5mm male adapter
- expandable 1/4" techflex
- no brand decent quality plugs
- heat shrink
- cardas solder

XLR female - 6.3mm male adapter (Balanced - unbalanced replacement for my Cardas balanced cable)
- expandable 1/4 techflex
- no brand decent quality 6.3mm gold plug
- Neutrik female NC*FX plugs
- heat shrink various sizes
- cardas solder

both using 4 core wiring - 18 guage by coleman cable. (what my locale DIY store carried) I bit stiffer than Cardas but sounds really good - still breaking them in. Not fancy - but much better than store bought.

A friend needed a switch box so I did some scrounging around to see what I could find for spare parts. An hour or so later and we had this:





It's a 3:1 design with a common ground (unswitched). The switch and knob are from Mouser, the chassis from Ebay and the RCA's are from Headamp's DIY Store. Total construction cost was ~$70 or so, not bad.

Now if I'd only posted in the correct thread. :doh:

Lol. I'm sure you're still welcome here in the future

Obligatory cable pic: simple RCA-RCA using Neotech UPOCC in PVC w/ Neutrik RCAs. Cheap, easy on the eyes and sounds great. I loaned out my spare pair of RCA cables and of course needed another pair less than a week later...

my latest mini-minis.
Sorry I didn't embed, but my browser crashed whenever I tried.

they work great. I left the first part of the plug left uncovered with heatshrink, so if could fit easily into the small jack holes, but it doubled as making an excellent handle.

I also made two other mini-minis, and two mini-rcas, but they're all kind of in use right now. And I really can't see why anybody would ever use switchcraft over neutrik plugs. The look better, are smaller, cheaper, and easier to solder.
Is there a reason I'm just not seeing?

and n_maher, where'd ya get your neotech from?

pyrokid's latest mini-mini's ^^

haha, Thanks!
did the other ones not show up, though?

the reasons for me are numerous. out of the neutriks I have bought (maybe 20) there have been 4 that were faulty (intermittent connection measured with a DMM even before I touched them) the build quality is nowhere near as rugged or attractive IMO. and they have to be drilled out to fit many wires. oh and they (switchcraft) are actually really easy to use once you have the technique down.

partsexpress has a good range of neotech wires. great stuff actually. some of the cheapest UPOCC I know of and they have a good range of gauges. their UPOCC silver is really nice too.

I think you mean parts connexion. Takefiveaudio has a good range as well.

Almost all of it comes from TakeFive. In the past I've used SonicCraft as well but they have been less responsive than I would expect lately. They used to be great.

any chance of part # and webstore for identical build?

gychang