akdmx
Head-Fier
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I'm trying to understand the construction of a headphone cable before I start collecting materials to build my own. Is it more common to buy individual wires and run 4 of them from the jack to the y-split and then 2 on each side, or are most people using something like the canare star quad? If I go the route of running individual wires for signals and 2 grounds, would this be a suitable wire to use? It seems like it would be, but it's so much cheaper than most of the stuff I'm seeing on homegrown that I figured I aught to ask.
25 feet 20 AWG Silver Teflon Wire White 19 strands - eBay (item 230391857610 end time Nov-23-09 11:26:10 PST)
The other thing I'm trying to understand is how people get such a uniformly round shape underneath the sleeve when using individual wires? Do most people run the wires through a tube of some sort? What goes between the wires and the sleeve? And as far as the sleeve goes, are most people using the 3/8" expandable to 5/8"?
25 feet 20 AWG Silver Teflon Wire White 19 strands - eBay (item 230391857610 end time Nov-23-09 11:26:10 PST)
The other thing I'm trying to understand is how people get such a uniformly round shape underneath the sleeve when using individual wires? Do most people run the wires through a tube of some sort? What goes between the wires and the sleeve? And as far as the sleeve goes, are most people using the 3/8" expandable to 5/8"?