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Very nice of you to share! @NTK1 - Double Helix Cables probably has the largest single collection of them. ViaBlues (fake and real) can be found all over eBay, but are larger in size (40mm long and 20mm in diameter). Searching eBay for "pant rca splitter" gives you some more varieties.

Can you provide more information on what you are trying to do and what the cable is connecting? Is this SE or Balanced? For some applications using a common ground between L/R is okay. For others, NOPE. I do not think you will find sleeving any easier as the vast majority use the "inchworm"...

Once made, I have not had any that spontaneously untwisted, but then my headphones have SMC connectors that screw in. Of course, I somehow made left-handed twists so when I screw in the connectors, I untwist the cable...If you have screw in connectors, make sure to make a right-hand twist. I...

Just to put the size in perspective, 0.90mm OD is smaller than a single conductor in Mogami 2799, which is 1.0mm OD. If unbundled Mogami 2799 can make an 8-wire (too scared to try), then that lunashop one should also be able to. EDIT: Ninja'd Also @Minatect , that 100 strands is misleading as...

The fiddly-ness of the adapters are because they are probably not made to the same spec. I have a cheap HOSA 1/4" to 1/8" that just does not seem to work with about 20% of my 1/4" connectors. You have 3 adapters, making the odds pretty good that something will be out of alignment.   Not sure...

Would this not short a balanced connection? I think single-ended would be fine as they already have a common ground, which the OP appears to have from the TRS tip in the picture.

  By hooking up Gumby digitally via USB or digitally through that sound card (SPDIF/AES/EBU) and choosing to play bit-perfect (WASAPI or ASIO exclusive modes) through your media player (foobar, Jriver, etc), you are pretty much bypassing all of the fancy stuff on that card. Maybe the inputs for...

  Stripping a multi-conductor cable is mostly about looks than performance (as long as the cable is short, say about 6 feet or under 2 meters). Depending on what you want them to look like as you can individually sheath then braid or braid then sheath the braid. I like the look of individual...

Well, since the rest of their DS DACs appear to be AKM4490's, I think eventually they will update since they can just buy one DS DAC instead of maintaining 2. Gungnir DS's probably are not moving very well especially with Jotunheim Balanced DS at $499.

Wait... 4 feet? I thought Gumby's rocking feature from it's 3 feet was supposed to remind us of his partner in crime, Pokey!

True, he can rewire both drivers.

That means that is a Single-Ended only headphone, which for the price is to be expected. You can still use Quad cables by using 2 conductors for ground and 1 each for +R and +L. I'm not sure you can beat the value of the Quad cables as they are both popular and readily available.   You are...

First Welcome to DIY!   Second, You do not want SMC connectors. You are looking for 3.5mm TS (Tip-Sleeve, also known as mono) female sockets place in the cups and 3.5mm TS male connectors to put on the cable. Not sure what the driver wires look like in that headphone, but most headphones have...

  Do you have the wiring information for those balanced outputs on the PHA 3? Considering it is Sony and they hate using industry standards that are not their own, I think you should find how the sockets are connected. Admittedly, they can only switch the +/- so both phases would be inverted...

I think having proper braiding for interconnects is more important as common-mode noise/EMI generated in the interconnected will be amplified. Since most cabled headphones do not have amplifiers built into the cups, braiding and shielding are less important since that noise will not be amplified...