[egotrip]

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My first D.I.Y. 3.5mm jack to RCA Interconnect
Nothing spectacular
 

We have those same plugs here too! But I think they are too cheap to use!

 

As the post stated, this is my first cable, Why waste lots of $$ if i can't get satisied by the result?
Try, fail, improve.
I really don't care what you think is cheap. This is my cable, my first, and if I like the result. i will improve my skills if I am satisfied with my result.

 

[Trysaeder]

Twist with or against the natural twist, I forget.
 
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A question on headphone recabling, when splitting the 4-braid into 2 for the individual left-right earcups, how do you keep the wires twisted? They're extremely liable to unwind and I'm not sure what to do to hold them together.

 

[RuiCanela]

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My first D.I.Y. 3.5mm jack to RCA Interconnect
Nothing spectacular
 

We have those same plugs here too! But I think they are too cheap to use!

 

As the post stated, this is my first cable, Why waste lots of $$ if i can't get satisied by the result?
Try, fail, improve.
I really don't care what you think is cheap. This is my cable, my first, and if I like the result. i will improve my skills if I am satisfied with my result.

That's it! You're in the way!

 

[tranhieu]

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My first LOD (or any cable).  I've tried a couple more and keep pulling the pins out of the connector, went on a bad luck streak

  I originally had some techflex over the cable but I think I got the order wrong putting it over the cable and it kept sliding around.  I finally ended up cutting it off.  Just received some mogami cable today, so going to give that a try.  Braiding was kind of a pain too lol

I never use heatshrink for the pins, just bend those 3 outward, then before closing the case apply some hot glue on and they will stay like that forever. The 1st lod I made that way still function well till now (nearly 1 year), even though I never treat it the way it should be (aka heavily abused)

 

[olor1n]

Cable porn. I never knew I was that way inclined. Which DIYer should I be speaking to for a custom HD650 cable?

 

[Vansen]

The stock connector went bad on my ER-6i. This is what i replaced it with.

 

[JiggaD369]

So anyone have suggestions for recabling my K240's coming in?

 

[Kibble Fat]

If its your first recable, don't do it to a new pair of headphones

 

[FallenAngel]

Yeah... don't.  They're a total pain in the butt to work with and easy to destroy.
 
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So anyone have suggestions for recabling my K240's coming in?

 

[dasmb]

 
Emergency recable of my Audio-Technica ATH-ES9Ws -- stepped on the simple, beautiful stock cable and that's all she wrote.  Seemed cheap to me at first, guess I was right.
 
Cable is Star Quad, terminator's a switchcraft.
 
Obviously the red cable (the only thing I had on hand) will not stand.  Taking advice and inspiration for:
1) a Y split solution that doesn't look horrible (thinking of carving something out of a block of maple)
2) good cable that's much more flexible and thinner (don't really need the  shielding either)
3) a plug that will play nicer with iPhone cases
 
Also, is it possible to get cotton weave insulation, such as you'll find on the Porta Pro wires?  I've been throughly impressed by both the look and flexibility of that stuff...over some decent wires with decent plugs, I think I'd have a solution that didn't sacrifice the dignified look of the ATs.

 

[3602]

I played around with Canare quad-conductor cables (not Star-Quad, at least I don't believe so) and those are actually acceptably thin and quite flexible. Much more so than the Mogami quad-conductor one anyway in both cases (thing has a Gorram tension string inside).
Also that Y-split is quite good. Use shorter heatshrink maybe.

 

[apatN]

Strip the cable of its outer jacket and cover the conductors in 3/16 nylon sleeving (try ebay seller furryletters). The leads to the cups can be sleeved in 1/8 nylon or some heat shrink. As for the y-split use some adhesive lined heat shrink. For a smaller plug you can try the Neutrik one. Switchcraft also has some nice 1/8 plugs but are pretty expensive for what they are imo. You can try the 1/8 plugs from vintage_audio_lab (ebay): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270514745546&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123#ht_1112wt_905. They are beautiful plugs with a built in strain relief (just use some heat shrink, preferably adhesive lined, so the screws has something to hold onto).

 

[haloxt]

Canare has star quads with very different thicknesses, some have copper braid shielding, others don't. The ones without braid shielding can have pretty good gauge conductors and be very thin and light, but were designed for permanent installation, not flexibility and durability. Still, a good compromise between braid shielded and unsheathed wires but I personally prefer unsheathed wires for headphones.

 

[JiggaD369]

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If its your first recable, don't do it to a new pair of headphones

I have done recabling before so it's not a problem.
 
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Yeah... don't.  They're a total pain in the butt to work with and easy to destroy.
 
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So anyone have suggestions for recabling my K240's coming in?

 

Angel, mind explaining why they're a pain to recable? I have the Sextetts (MP or LP). What PITA steps are there in recabling them? 

 

[RTF]

These are my first decent diy cables after lots of projects, so I thought I'd post them.  They are both made with Mogami Neglex 2534 and 1/4in Techflex.