[ostewart]

Thanks for that tip, i noticed that it softens when heated.

 

[ostewart]

Thanks for that tip, i noticed that it softens when heated.

 

[ardgedee]

The plastic will eventually deform into another shape, in which case just curl it and whack it with a hairdryer or heatgun again.

If you want an ear hook that is a little more aggressively springy, put a tube of heat-shrink over the area and attach it to the plug body, then do what fraggler describes above. I do this for all my IEM cables, and I much prefer it to memory wire. Again, it will eventually deform, but within reason you can continue reshaping it as much as you want.

 

[ostewart]

sounds good, i did do heatshrink and wire before, it became a little uncomfortable after a while, but i do have some nylon sheathing that i may use, or similar.

 

[ardgedee]

My first IEM cable irritated the back of one ear, so I re-bent the heatshrinks so they curved around the ears more tightly and then curled away from the ear near where the heatshrinks ended. The squared-off ends of the heatshrink were causing the irritation.
 
Later I sheathed the whole length in multifilament and that helped by adding a little padding. The irritation had already gone away before I had done that, though.

 

[cogsand gears]

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going to make a toxic cables SPC 26awg cable with these:
and this:
This:
(i like using pailiccs, quite big but nice quality and they look good)
Cable is for:
 
Gonna look good i think, hopefully Frank has the SPC in tranparent, as i prefer it to blue or grey translucent. Still dont now wether to make memory cable or not...

I have used both the trans blue, and the clear insulated SPC to make IEM cables:

 

 
The trans blue looks pretty awesome IMO. I would also say that as long as you have a chin slider on there, you wont need any memory wire for the ear loops. The 26awg is very flexible, and stays in place just fine for me using the cinch.
 
 
 
 

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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I would also say that as long as you have a chin slider on there, you wont need any memory wire for the ear loops. 

+1

 

[cssarrow]

Just replaced the most crappy RCA in my setup. Went to a Polkaduio subwoofer.





I used the 16AWG cables that came with my Audioengine A5+. Braided 4 conductor round for fun. Sub-woofer sounds a lot tighter now in both music and action movies.

Neutrik RCA Connectors :} Grounded each connector.

 

[cgg123321]

Has anyone else used VGA pins for their TF10/UE pins? I believe TF10's use the 0.75mm pins and other brands use the 0.78mm pins. I'm wondering if the vga pins will stretch out the connectors. 

 

[danpong]

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What IEM do you have? There are different connectors for different IEMs.

Oh sorry to not mention!!! I have JH16.  Any suggestion? of what it is called and where can I get it?

 

[cogsand gears]

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Oh sorry to not mention!!! I have JH16.  Any suggestion? of what it is called and where can I get it?

 Lunashops and Toxic Cables ebay store both sell the connector pins your after.

 

[DefQon]

Those Paillics are absolute pita to work with to get a fine result.

 

[ardgedee]

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Has anyone else used VGA pins for their TF10/UE pins? I believe TF10's use the 0.75mm pins and other brands use the 0.78mm pins. I'm wondering if the vga pins will stretch out the connectors. 

 
HD D-sub pins, which are used for 15-pin VGA connectors, are 0.76mm dia, usually ±0.02mm.
 
The ones you find in VGA connectors and connector parts are usually hollow and bend easily. I don't recommend using hollow pins for anything other than a quicky whip-something-together bench experiment, because of the increased chance of the pin snapping off inside the IEM.

 

[ostewart]

With pailiccs use flux and it comes out really good

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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With pailiccs use flux and it comes out really good

+1, and then add......and your Golden!