[Anthony1]

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Originally Posted by momomo6789 /img/forum/go_quote.gif and some rca's i made with vampire 20ga and copper shield ^_^

sweet leads! Can you post a link where you got the wire and shield from?

 

[momomo6789]

wire was from Michael Percy Audio Ordering Information vampire 20ga
copper shielding was from glensgarage.com O_o way cheaper then other places was suspicious if it was alu but its copper.
the rca's are from china >$2 each good deal imo

need to buy some clear heatshrink and slap it on there

 

[nems]

RCA-female 3.5mm

 

[apatN]

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Originally Posted by momomo6789 /img/forum/go_quote.gif wire was from Michael Percy Audio Ordering Information vampire 20ga copper shielding was from glensgarage.com O_o way cheaper then other places was suspicious if it was alu but its copper. the rca's are from china >$2 each good deal imo need to buy some clear heatshrink and slap it on there

Interested in where you can find those RCAs. China is kinda big.

 

[Llama16]

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Originally Posted by Prog Rock Man /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for that Llama16, so too late now! You did a very neat job. Rather than mark the jack, have you got any tape/heatshrink that can go around one of the wires? I saw some lovely bullet phonos for £4 each, but they have no markings. So what I was going to do was to find different coloured cables and have the cables do the identification.

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Try Markertek for different color shrink tubing (probably 3:1 shrink), one blue and one red. That should fit over the connector and shrink down enough to fit on the current cable.

Yeah i've thought of that. I couldn't find any colored heatshrink that would fit over the connecters, but I bought some red heatshrink to put over the right lead. Allthough it was single wall, so I didn't go through with it as it would have made that lead way more flexible then the other.

I'll try to find that markertek and cut of maybe 1mm, then put it over the connector as a ring.

Thanks for the tip

 

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Well ... A great friend of mine also has HD-580s, so he ended up with my lovely first version cable that sounded so good, so this is the almost identical one I made for myself :

The Black Snake Moan Sennheiser Re-cable cable ...LOL

 

[momomo6789]

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Originally Posted by apatN /img/forum/go_quote.gif Interested in where you can find those RCAs. China is kinda big.

10pair Pure Copper OFC Silver-Plated RCA Connector Plug - eBay (item 170386401278 end time Apr-21-10 07:44:48 PDT)

 

[Prog Rock Man]

AKG K702 re-cable using Switchcraft jack and mini XLR and Van Damme cable.

 

[PJPro]

Nice one PRM

 

[Prog Rock Man]

Thanks PJPro. First attempt and it works! I am chuffed.

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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Originally Posted by Prog Rock Man /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks PJPro. First attempt and it works! I am chuffed.

Nice Cable... now you need to get some Nylon on there to 'purdy' it up!

 

[Prog Rock Man]

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Originally Posted by WayTooCrazy /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nice Cable... now you need to get some Nylon on there to 'purdy' it up!

I know! I just wanted to make one that worked and to see how cheaply it could be done. That cable cost about £10.

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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Originally Posted by Prog Rock Man /img/forum/go_quote.gif I know! I just wanted to make one that worked and to see how cheaply it could be done. That cable cost about £10.

Not bad! That's a good price! You saved yourself probably $100 or so than buying.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

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Originally Posted by WayTooCrazy /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not bad! That's a good price! You saved yourself probably $100 or so than buying.

Actually, I have not really made a saving. I have gone back to the stock cable. My one does not sound as good. It is muddled with an odd soundstage and less detail.

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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Originally Posted by Prog Rock Man /img/forum/go_quote.gif Actually, I have not really made a saving. I have gone back to the stock cable. My one does not sound as good. It is muddled with an odd soundstage and less detail.

That's not good! I build my cables with Mogami W2534, SwitchCraft MiniXLR and Neutrik 1/8th or 1/4 connectors and have been told they sound better than stock AKG K702 cable (I build Gaming cables for the K702). I also have used the same cable on my old AKG K240 and it was better than stock (but that one used a Canare L-4E6S). Try a different cable with your connectors and see if it doesn't get better.

You know what else it might be... it sounds like you have the wires mixed on the Mini-XLR. The pinout should be. Pin 1 is Ground, Pin 2 is Right, and Pin 3 is Left. If you use a Fader and fade from left to right... you should hear that distinctly without audio bleeding into the other channels. If it does, you have the ground mixed up. This happened to me plenty of times and it ended up sounding congested and not natural at all. I've even had it where it sound ok when fader was in center position, but once I moved either left or right... it started to get weird. Just double check your wiring. Hope that helps.