This has been blown out of proportion. It definitely wasn't meant to be an attack on CFA or Solaris, it became that because CFA fans were overzealous in defending the Solaris after being told that someone noticed unit variation from auditions and then confirmed it with measurements. This person...

How do people determine if they should return them or not if they all measure differently. How would you identify which is "defective?" That's what Crin is asking when he's saying which is representative of the sig CFA wants to hit. The point is to prove whether or not Crin is full of crap. If...

If you don't mind a basic looking cable like that don't waste your money. Just go to markertek, buy 5 feet of w2893 and a 3.5mm connector for ~7 bucks shipped and make the cable entirely from scratch. Looks like a 5 foot cable is going to be ~22 from that link.

Nope, you'd just be doing extra work for no reason. If you're planning on getting a balanced amp and only want to make things once you can terminate in a 4 pin XLR male and then make a 4 pin to 6.3mm adapter. It's a more common version of what Paladin's done.

Honestly one of the main reasons people use L4E6 is the cost. 50 cents a foot for super good quality wire. If you decide you don't want to braid it you can basically use it as is and have a completed cable in under 10 minutes. w2893 works great as well, I prefer the 26awg because I use 275...

Great, thanks! I completely forgot about flexibility. So looser braid = more flexible, more microphonics, tighter is the opposite?

I see most custom cable makers do a fairly loose braid such as this. Is there a benefit to leaving it looser like than vs a braid like this? Maybe it's time related or microphonics related?

Just throwing this out there, I originally posted about hearing some pops with my Focal Elex. After a bit of testing I figured out that the pops only happened with my Mjolnir 1. I wasn't hearing the pops through other amps. Just curious if anyone was running the Elex through the same amp and had...

Click does seem to be a better term for what's happening now that I really took a listen to it. I'm unsure about whether or not I want another pair. After doing another listening session I do think I enjoy the Elex more than my HE-560. I'm not sure I enjoy it $350 more though. I think the HE-560...

Cool, thanks for confirming I'm not the only one with this issue. I spent about 2 hours listening to my HE-560 through the same set up just to confirm it wasn't a new issue that just developed with my dac/amp. I'm gonna listen again today just to confirm I'm really hearing it every now and then...

Has anyone noticed any pops when using their Elex? I'll hear some pops every now and then when using my pair. If it matters I'm running a Bifrost Uber and a Mjolnir 1. I've had this set up for a while and never heard pops with my other headphones.

Thanks for the suggestions, went with the set from Amazon. Just waiting for all the parts to come in and I can get started modding.

So I'm getting ready to mod my Bottlehead crack and was getting my shopping list ready. I've decided on adding a choke, replacing the 2 output caps with film caps, modding the power supply with cree diodes. Anyone got suggestions on what to purchase to mount the choke? I think I've got the film...

Got about 40ish ft of Canare l-4e6s left and I found out I hate working with it. Anyone wanna take it off my hands?

Just to clarify, my comment was in the context of spending $650 for a prebuilt Crack with speedball, no other mods involved. Given that price bracket I think the MJ2 offers a lot more for a majority of people. I agree it's mostly a matter of preference and I typically tend towards the more...

They're wired like an HD 600. Each side has a ground and a signal. I'm not sure if I clearly explained what I was imagining but I'll keep it simple and just use mono connectors and mark left and right channels. Thanks for chiming in!

I'm planning on modding my pair of Senngrados into a detachable cable. Could I do something like use a TRS female, only wire tip on the left one, ring on the right one and then for the two male TRS I'll connect both tip and ring together to make a cable that doesn't care about the side it's...

Cheating a bit by using some used prices but I'd say La Figarro 339 and Mjolnir 2 are both better purchases at that range. What do you guys do with tubes that have ringing? I have a couple lying around that i don't listen to because of that problem. Edit: added in Mjolnir 2 which I...

Those builds are absolutely beautiful but I think the asking price is way too much. You lose the value proposition of the Crack and I feel like a majority of people who would consider purchasing a prebuilt Crack wouldn't dare touch the insides of the amp. At $650 you're nearing the price of...

I did something similar but I still stripped the jacket off. I used 550 for the part before the split and 275 after.

Okay, anyone got suggestions for tools to make twisting the two cables after the Y split together evenly? I've read about using a drill to twist the cables together but I haven't had much success yet. Is my best option to learn how to do that better? It looks decent hand twisting but it's a pain...

Thanks a lot for the offer but I'm planning on making quite a few cables and don't mind trying to source out my own cheap source.

I'm probably gonna try out stranded hook up wire on ebay. It looks like it's about $0.12 a foot, basically as cheap as butchering microphone cable. Thanks!

I tried searching through the thread but couldn't really find what I was looking for even though I'm sure this has been asked before. Anyone got advice on a quicker, more efficient way to strip microphone cable? Right now I'm just running a knife down the jacket and peeling it off. It works but...

Just have to chime in and express my joy! I finally have a dead quiet Crack!!!! For the longest time I had buzzing and humming and crackles and all sorts of crappy noises I don't want to hear. I've rebuilt the amp 3 times, one of those times with a majority of new components. Turns out my build...