Deep Funk
Headphoneus Supremus
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Interesting...
Will give that a try! Thanks.
If you purely come from the diameter for the end fitting, there is no worry. My supplier was nice enough to give me a cap with larger hole at the back, cable diameter wasn't much of a problem, except during soldering.
Good news is, FIRST CABLE is done!! Using the following
SWITCHCRAFT TA3F mini XLR
SWITCHCRAFT TRS
Canare Star Quad Microphone cable: L-4E5C
Yeah the mini XLR is a little monster - fortunately I didn't go for thicker cable, otherwise it would be a lot of work there...
Overall impression with the original cable is that
- Overall the sound becomes more 'solid', more projectile, and more weighty.
- BASS impact has been become more prominent. Faster attack and umph! Bass has definitely improved in every way, quality and quantity.
- The cable somewhat makes the phone more musical - its very difficult to describe, but listening orchestra music, the double bass and cello range of frequency has been brought more forward, and I really feel the music 'mood'.
- My friend mentioned the cable actually improved the spacing, and better separation. However I personally didn't feel it.
- However things are rather different on the treble - it got a little recessed, so the violins and guitars don't "scream" as much as the original. I like 'harshness' on the higher register of the original cable.
- Details remain the same to me.
Overall its an improvement over the stock cable, and I think it will justify the improvement in almost every genre listening,
From discussion with my friend, he advised me to go for silver cable, which will give me the violin and guitar "screams" that I'm looking for. I'm poisoned and will continue to seek for my silver cable!! I hope silver cables will answer my call in search of a "piercing violin" cable.
Perhaps I will upload some photos later. Let's see run in will some magic to the treble... Yes now I'm definitely looking for my silver core cable!! Please recommend me!
P.S.: On my Essence ST, I used to play on High Gain with the original cable. With this new Canare cable, I can put it to Extra High Gain and the harsh sounds seems to went away.