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I only know a bit more than the basics about electricity and electronics, these were my first interconnects and I was actually expecting that sort of interferences. However, after a week of daily use that's not what I've found, everything has been running smoothly.

Thank you for your words and for your tips, I'll take them in account and put them to work in the future.

Note: The red wires are made of copper with enamel insulation.

no harm in covering it. I expec you are in summer at the moment, not too much static in the air, come winter these might be a problem

a blob of hot glue would do the trick

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I really dig the flat design. Great work. :-)

Are there any better looking female 1/4 jacks out there besides the Neutrik ones? I want to make a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter and Like the Look of the Viablue stuff but they don't seem to make a female connector. 

Its not much but I just did this recable with matching adapter cable.

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Originally Posted by apatN 

I really dig the flat design. Great work. :-)

Thanks, I think I can go flatter :)

Did another, quite different one. It's seven strands of that kind of enameled wire that constitutes most stock headphone cables.

I wonder what the exact conductivity of this stuff is, my initial crude DMM measurements were much better than expected.

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Originally Posted by lozanoa11 

Are there any better looking female 1/4 jacks out there besides the Neutrik ones? I want to make a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter and Like the Look of the Viablue stuff but they don't seem to make a female connector. 

Have you looked through the catalogues of other manufacturers, like Switchcraft and Furutech?

 

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Originally Posted by KingStyles 

Its not much but I just did this recable with matching adapter cable.

That looks very nice. Is it just the stock cable you have modified?

looks great.  is it 2893?

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Originally Posted by KingStyles 

Its not much but I just did this recable with matching adapter cable.

 

I love how thin that is, and like the colors too.  I wouldn't worry too much about the resistance.  You're sending a low level signal to a amp 4" away, whose input impedance is probably around 10k.  It would be great if you could find slimmer 3.5mm plugs like the stock ipod/iem cables... in some awesome color.  red, or gold.

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Originally Posted by limpidglitch 

Did another, quite different one. It's seven strands of that kind of enameled wire that constitutes most stock headphone cables.

I wonder what the exact conductivity of this stuff is, my initial crude DMM measurements were much better than expected.

I used the moon audio bulk black dragon wire. I thought I would try it. The wire was thinner than I would have liked but it worked all right.

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Originally Posted by JamesL 

I love how thin that is, and like the colors too.  I wouldn't worry too much about the resistance.  You're sending a low level signal to a amp 4" away, whose input impedance is probably around 10k.  It would be great if you could find slimmer 3.5mm plugs like the stock ipod/iem cables... in some awesome color.  red, or gold.

Thanks.
I wasn't worried (I've used the stuff before without any problems) as much as I was positively surprised. I measured the resistance to be ~.5Ω/m, which is equivalent to about 31-32AWG.

I'm fresh out of the small iPod like plugs, I'm afraid. While these aren't all that much bulkier, they tend to loose contact occasionaly when I turn/twist them in the jack.

My fingers have been itching again.

I don't even have a place I can use them, they're too short.

@limpidglitch: They're different, how did you do that?

I wish I had the time to go through all the pages, some sexy cables in here. I just ordered a bunch of connectors and jacks to get my hands dirty for the first time!