[Armaegis]

  Quick question for you cable builders, I've got a couple cables from Lear that don't have cable cinches and I don't have any tools on me since I'm in a temporary housing space. What do you guys recommend for a cinch?

 
You mean you want to crimp/clamp the wire down? tweezers or even a coin or butter knife against a table would do. If the jack doesn't have one built in, um, just tape I suppose.
 
 

 

[tramassacre]

  Quick question for you cable builders, I've got a couple cables from Lear that don't have cable cinches and I don't have any tools on me since I'm in a temporary housing space. What do you guys recommend for a cinch?

Just use Velcro If I'm understanding your request.  those little straps i use them to keep all my cables behind my stereo

 

[Hakase]

  That looks Pretty Good...  What do you have going on near the end of the headphones.  It looks like a really long plug I cant Quite tell.  

Long piece of heat shrink tubing + connector xD 
 

Good job.

My first DIY cable was also one which ran to just the left cup. It isn't much more complicated to build a traditional design. You will do just fine.

 
Thanks

 

[tramassacre]

Speaking of paracord...











4 strands of DHC Nucleotide UPOCC stranded copper
Type I mini paracord
DHC 1/8" plug
Vafamsound 3-pin mini-XLR

Mini paracord is roughly 2mm in diameter so fits most single wires.  It is a huge pain to sleeve each wire, but I love the look of it and most of my cables will be like this going forward.  I had experimented with some craft cord which was ever so slightly thinner and more compact a couple years ago (my Christmas cable), but they no longer make that cord.  This was listed as burgundy and I have several more colors coming.  Oh and if you go this route, measure very carefully, remembering that the sleeving shortens a bit when wire is fed through.  Also, melt the ends to prevent fraying.  

How did you get your braids so even... What's your secret?

 

[Sko0byDoo]

How did you get your braids so even... What's your secret?

 
Just look at those braids to know that's a lot of sweat and patience...

 

[tramassacre]

Truth. I think I managed though. It just took me 2 tries. The mini came out way better. I almost want to chop the end off the first and try again.

 

[Sko0byDoo]

The longer cable looks really nice...tight and even braiding.  I don't have such skill nor patience  

 

[HiGHFLYiN9]

How did you get your braids so even... What's your secret?

You'd be surprised, braids almost always come out even if you use uniform pressure throughout the braiding process. Not to negate Fraggler's cable, he did a very nice job here. 

 

[PLUSSOUND]

  Quick question for you cable builders, I've got a couple cables from Lear that don't have cable cinches and I don't have any tools on me since I'm in a temporary housing space. What do you guys recommend for a cinch?

You could use any heatshrink or one of our aluminum ones as slider.

 

[PinkyPowers]

Be careful using heatshrink. I nearly ruined a cable making a cinch. The heatgun fused the tubing to the clear coating on the conductors. I tried to cut it off, which only made things worse. Much worse. I was able to salvage the cable, but it won't ever be sellable.

Christian sent me one of those aluminum chin cinches, so once that Litz wire gets here from Toxic, I'll get to experiment first-hand.

 

[tramassacre]

You'd be surprised, braids almost always come out even if you use uniform pressure throughout the braiding process. Not to negate Fraggler's cable, he did a very nice job here. 

Actually as it turns out the cable i was using was more stiff than the cable I used for the mini aux cable. As a result the mini aux was more malleable and relaxed throughout the whole braiding process. The mini was gotham vs canair which was the stiffer first cable.

 

[proud2deviate]

I finally got a chance to re-cable my old Shure E4C's. 26ga silicone-insulated silver-plated* copper. The silicone is slightly tacky against itself, so this was a chore to get braided; I ended up using glycerine to slick it up a bit. The plug-end currently looks like a bag of smashed bumholes, as it was kludged together from whatever happened to be in reach at the time (I wanted to try these out!) It will (hopefully) soon be replaced by a much more aesthetically-pleasing kludge.
 
Other little things like a Y-splitter and strain-relief are to-be-determined, but I'm not wholly convinced that the silicone needs it. Overall, the cable is very flexible and even a bit stretchy. I'm pretty pleased with it so far. The microphonics are a bit unfortunate, though; kind of like running your thumbnail along a twisted guitar string. I hope I can dampen that somewhat with a cable cinch.
 

 
 
* As far as I have been able to determine. The plating dissolves in nitric acid, but stays put under HCl.

 

[Arty McGhee]

coincidently i've been playing with a silicone cable for a few weeks
its neat stuff abit hard to finish cleanly.. no y split needed
not microphonic at all but this is a completely different setup
 

 

[silverre]

Hi all 
i dunno if this is the right place to post this.. 
Since the eventual breaking of my Gr07 cable i decided to play with it and recable it. 
i bought a third party cable from aliexpress
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-2m-With-Mic-Remote-Volume-LC-OFC-DIY-Earphone-Cable-High-Quality-Replacement-Cable-Wire/32680291048.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.73.QPk8C7&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10056_10065_10068_10055_10054_112_10069_10059_110_111_418_10073_10017_109_10070_108_10060_10061_10052_10062_10053_10050_10051,searchweb201603_4&btsid=9c878b06-265c-4fa9-bf0d-8b0c669243b8
 
Please let me know if i have done it correctly as this is my first time doing it.. The red color side goes to the right monitor and the green one goes to the left.
The neutral coloured wire goes to the part nearer to the opening of the casing and the coloured (red/green) goes to the side away from the opening. The sound went through so i guess i got it right? even if i got it wrong i cant change it anymore since i sealed it already 

 

 
Since the cable is too big to fit into the small piece that closes the opening i removed the piece altogether and used sillicone to seal up the hole. 
 

 
-Edit-
I have long forgotten how my gr07 BE sounds, but now it sounds to have a very hollow bass ,mids are abit recessed and sounds very transparent... 

I gues i might have done something wrong there..
 
What do you guys think??

 

[Hal Rockwell]

Hi all 
i dunno if this is the right place to post this.. 
Since the eventual breaking of my Gr07 cable i decided to play with it and recable it. 
i bought a third party cable from aliexpress
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-2m-With-Mic-Remote-Volume-LC-OFC-DIY-Earphone-Cable-High-Quality-Replacement-Cable-Wire/32680291048.html?spm=2114.30010308.3.73.QPk8C7&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1_10056_10065_10068_10055_10054_112_10069_10059_110_111_418_10073_10017_109_10070_108_10060_10061_10052_10062_10053_10050_10051,searchweb201603_4&btsid=9c878b06-265c-4fa9-bf0d-8b0c669243b8

Please let me know if i have done it correctly as this is my first time doing it.. The red color side goes to the right monitor and the green one goes to the left.
The neutral coloured wire goes to the part nearer to the opening of the casing and the coloured (red/green) goes to the side away from the opening. The sound went through so i guess i got it right? even if i got it wrong i cant change it anymore since i sealed it already 




Since the cable is too big to fit into the small piece that closes the opening i removed the piece altogether and used sillicone to seal up the hole. 




-Edit-
I have long forgotten how my gr07 BE sounds, but now it sounds to have a very hollow bass ,mids are abit recessed and sounds very transparent... :basshead:
I gues i might have done something wrong there..

What do you guys think??

You probably wired the drivers out of phase. That means that one of the drivers is wired correctly and the other one is wired backwards - the ground lead goes where the hot lead should go.