Hello. I have a pair of HD800's and had a problem a faulty 1/4" plug. Even though they were slightly past the warranty period, Sennheiser showed off stellar customer support by sending me a brand new cable. I asked where to ship the faulty cable back and they said I didn't have to. So...

Hi everyone, I bought a Shure SE215 phones several months ago and I've been loving it for my daily use. However, I've been experiencing issues with the cable. One of the sides doesn't work anymore. I tried to clean the contact but had no success. It seems the cable must have broken (I'm not...

Hello all. After recently upgrading my headphone setup and doing a bit of work on my speaker setup and buying a few nicer cables I was wondering about building cables myself. I personally enjoy building things quite a bit and think that (at least in the beginning) building custom cables may be...

I recently bought the audioquest dragonfly black DAC which connects via USB 2. The product is compatible with android with a proper adapter and my connection is MicroUSB B. Since I bought this fairly expensive DAC, connected to my fairly expensive Shure SE425 earphones, i don't want a 0.2$...

Hello all, I am building myself a custom cable which combines a microphone input and headphone output into one cable and want to use 4-pin mini XLR for part of it and to do so I need to be sure that I can plug a female 4-pin mini XLR connector into a male 3-pin mini XLR connector. Does anybody...

Hi, After my first post I got recommended to get some better, more durable IEM's. I am looking for ones with a good strong cable, no easy cable breaks etc. And some good sound. I like them to have a warm sound with some good bass. My budget is about €40 and thats stretching it. The ones I...

Hi all! I am new here but have two questions for you, hopefully anyone can help. I have had the same problem with the cable breaking twice, one pair one earbud doesnt work anymore. I have another pair of Creative EP-630 but the cable broke just at one earbud and at the Y split. The audio still...

Hi all, I'm creating balanced headphone cables for my newly acquired 2x NuForce HA200 amps. I've searched around and found this diagram: The thing I don't get is the mirror image output pin assignments. Did they just flip it so the diagram is easier to read or do some amps with dual 3pin...

Topic to share information about Ursine Audio cables by Jarrod Dupuis. http://ursine.audio/ This is the braided cable I ordered (204 usd). Can't wait to try it with my Audeze LCD-XC. :) 23 AWG 56 strand copper conductor with a silicone jacket cable Eidolic connectors and Y splitter Cardas Quad...

So I have a pair of Mitchell & Johnson GL2 SE's on the way (from Ebay) and I'm looking for a 3.5mm male-male cable with a microphone so I can use them for gaming (PS4). I thought this would be easy to find, but all I've come across are cheap knockoff cables with poor reviews on Amazon. I found...

A primer on high-end cables Introduction This article can be viewed as a brief discussion on the performance of cables throughout different tiers. This is just to provide a rough picture of the world of high-end upgrade cables, based on my experience. I can imagine that there’s a healthy...