DIY Cable Gallery!! - Page 58

ahh i gotcha...why not just use a adapter though? dont most headphones come with one? not to discredit your job though looks great!

It relieves the stress, out of the mini jacks, so all the weight of the 1/4's is not over the mini jacks. Usually portable's mini jacks are a little weak.

In some other cases, these adapters fit better than the stock ones, when the mini jacks are too close to each other. Portable amps are expensive, so you need to take care of every detail. That's why I called them "Paranoid Adapters".

This isn't really a discussion topic, but the 1/4 to 1/8 as an adapter cable is pretty common, grado and sennheiser both ship them...

Here is the new and improved 650 cable! Same materials inside different materials and style outside. It does look much better in real life then in the picture, but this is the best I could do. Let me know what you guys think.

Once I was done with the 650 cable I decided to put the stock cable to good use. As some of you remember I also recabled a pair of MDR-V6's. I put that stock plug to use too.







I decided to recable my Koss KSC75's since I wanted a little longer cable then stock and I am addicted. That and had extra stock stuff laying around . Let me know what you guys/girls think.

-Alex-

Are those pretty heavy on your ears now? I imagine they'd tug quite a bit

I doubt its that bad. The 650s stock cable looks heavy but it isn't.

No. Just like PsychoZX said the stock 650 cable looks heavy, but it isn't. Is is actually hardly heavier then the stock cable.

Niice . It sort of reminds me of that Moonaudio KSC-35 recable from awhile back.

my first pair of cables, 24awg silver plated copper with teflon insulation in a tri-braid covered in white techflex, switchcraft RA connectors, generic sub-mini for the headphone end

as for the sound, I knew i'd hear a difference, but i just never thought it'd be this much better, bulstered the low end, much less distortion at high volume levels, took away a lot of the muddiness i noticed in some tracks, better imaging, more detail, yadda yadda yadda, couldn't be happier with how they turned out, i think i'm hooked

Wow, I just read this entire thread, and I just wanna say that you are all AMAZING. In fact, I'm inspired try my hand at making some cables.

im more impressed that you read this entire thing

... its a ton of fun thats for sure!

go for it, its easy if you have any soldering experience, not to mention you can save yourself a ton of money, not to mention i had a blast doing it, i dunno, something very satisfy about pluging in something you just made and hearing how much better it sounds right away

Finally my HD580s have gone balanced! Now I just need to finish the amp

Specs:
Cable: Canare Starquad
Cover: Black techflex, red/black heatshrink on headphone end
Headphone end: Senn connectors from the group buy ground down with dremel, soldered, and glued. Not pretty but will sound better then any other solution.
Amp end: 4 pin Mini XLR. Talk about hard to work with. 4 Cables soldered onto contacts only 1mm appart.