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Crossovers, resistors, or ferrite perhaps?

Hint :  It has something to do with impedance regulating.

 

[nikongod]

zip ties?

 

[FallenAngel]

Can't be something crazy like a transformer... right?

 

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LOL .... Zip ties tighten up the music.... didn't you know that ?

 

[cyberspyder]

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That looks excellent Brendan, very clean and simple.

Thanks, it took quite a while to stuff the cable in the casing. Had to enlarge the entry hole, then use some creative thinking on the strain relieve. Planning is everything, I won't lie, I made the mistake of cutting the wires a bit too short and had to extend them.
 
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[lozanoa11]

Ok so this is pretty bad not gunna lie. The braid is horrible and it barelly fits in the iPod connector. But it sound awesome!

 

 

[Hasaudio]

Whats homegrownaudio like?

 

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A good company to deal with .... But just an FYI :  NO interconnect needs large ga conductors, or multiple conductors such as braid. It WILL smear the signal to some extent.  A 24 or 26 ga positive run, and negative run is ALL an interconnect needs for wonderful sound.

 

[Kibble Fat]

My Canare L-4E6S interconnect does a fine job at 24 AWG.  It also fits the low profile iPod plug PERFECTLTY with some reaming.
 

 

[limpidglitch]

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A good company to deal with .... But just an FYI :  NO interconnect needs large ga conductors, or multiple conductors such as braid. It WILL smear the signal to some extent.  A 24 or 26 ga positive run, and negative run is ALL an interconnect needs for wonderful sound.

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But yeah, interconnects are often a bit over done here, but that's just a bit of the fun, isn't it?

 

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But yeah, interconnects are often a bit over done here, but that's just a bit of the fun, isn't it?

 

You bet ... All of DIY is just a whole lot of fun to me. Imagine my surprise when I started on my quest to build "the perfect" interconnect. I spent almost 2 years trying different conductors, construction, spacing, braids, twists, etc, etc ... Only to find a single strand of 26ga for positive and negative sounded better than all of the other extremely fancy and complex options for construction LOL.
 

 

[limpidglitch]

Haha, hope you enjoyed the journey then.
 
I don't have the exact same problem, as I only make things thinking about aesthetics and/or useability, but in my quest for finding designs that have never been done before, I have often become a little overzealous and ended up with half-finished projects that I simply cannot complete.

 

[BebopMcJiggy]

Ahhh so my dumb self won an auction on ebay for several thousand feet of stranded silver coated copper wire w/ teflon.  22 ga, I would have gone for 24-26 or something but the price was right (40$ + shipping vs 900+ for a 4000' spool of 24 ga).
 

 
All one color but whatever, I just use a 3$ continuity tester I got at Lowes to determine which wire is which.  Just kind of braid it up and solder one end all willy nilly and then test the opposite ends to see which is which.  The ends with electrical tape were cut off the end of the pictured cable, the tape was to mark which wire was soldered to which pin.
 
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Cable is somewhere from 11 to 12' long.  The mini-xlrs are switchcraft TA4FLX or TA4MLX, I couldn't find a vendor for either the male or female black version, (can't remember which,) they were also nearly double the cost and frankly the black or nickel finish makes no difference to me... they both have silver pins if it makes any difference.
 
Moving along then some crappy little mini-mini cables...  Will probably replace the plugs on the longer one as they are actually made from some extra solid core silver wire I had laying around with some cheap 1$ rean plugs.

 
and finally... same as the first cable only about 7-8' long and made from solid core silver wire instead of stranded copper coated w/ silver.  Also with one of those heavy via blue ferrite core thingies to help hold the y split together, because what good is a cable if you can't beat someone to death with it?

 
All cables are covered in a nylon multi filament sleeve secured w/black adhesive heat shrink, after the y-splits they are covered in 1/8" red/black heat shrink and some pet mono filament sleeving, secured by yet more red/black adhesive heat shrink... if that were not obvious from the pictures.  Also used liquid electrical tape and hot glue inside the connectors themselves.

 

[grokit]

Nice job, Mr. McJiggy, what will you do with the thousands of feet you have left?

 

[BebopMcJiggy]

I suppose first I will make different short 4 pin female mini-xlr -> various se & balanced cables to compare them with my other cables for now... to see what I like most or how they might affect the sound if I can even detect such things well enough.  (Entire chain being solid core silver or stranded silver plated copper or whatever... admittedly with the 1 mini-xlr connection.)  I kind of want to do the same thing in all copper also, but I will probably just buy some 4 conductor mogami for that or something.  
 
Also make some for other headphones maybe.  Then I will still have several thousand feet left for a rainy day I guess...  maybe sell some of it, who knows.