I used Paracord 425 as sleeves and my infamous AWG26 30 strand UP-OCC silver plated wire with PTFE sheath.
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gimmeheadroom
Headphoneus Supremus
Hello, do you know of a good source of headphone wire in the EU?
I know audiophonics.fr and audeos.pl
Got an idea to use ifi Neo idsd wirelessly. Today I went to search for old wires. to assemble into a new head to be able to use with power banks **The conclusion is that it works very well. It is very convenient and can be moved without having to find a power outlet. The sound was still full. It doesn't feel like a drop at all. It's because of the power bank. The power is exactly the amp's specification, it can be used for a long time, the sound is normal. (But maybe not as much as my table lamp) Overall, I like it very much. Let's try to play together.
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Headphoneus Supremus
8 - core silver cable.
High gloss black plug and Y-split parts :3
Unbraided down to the Y-split and re-braided two 4-core strands for L and R.
Added thin ring of red heatshrink around right channel plug in the indentation.
High gloss black plug and Y-split parts :3
Unbraided down to the Y-split and re-braided two 4-core strands for L and R.
Added thin ring of red heatshrink around right channel plug in the indentation.
cpu235
100+ Head-Fier
Made my first cable with 16 guage amazon basics speaker cable, I had some of them left after I sold my speaker setup and I always wanted to learn how to make a cable so I tried to use stuff I had laying around, it was really fun and in the future I may make some mmcx cable for my ier z1r if I could find a good source of wires. (This cable is really thick and I don't really recommend it but it was something I had around)
Sound-wise there is basically no difference but I think it looks better than the stock cable.
Sound-wise there is basically no difference but I think it looks better than the stock cable.
gimmeheadroom
Headphoneus Supremus
Killer! I think you found the perfect cable for HE6SE. Usually, the 1.21 gigawatts we need to drive them properly sets most inferior girly-man cables on fireMade my first cable with 16 guage amazon basics speaker cable, I had some of them left after I sold my speaker setup and I always wanted to learn how to make a cable so I tried to use stuff I had laying around, it was really fun and in the future I may make some mmcx cable for my ier z1r if I could find a good source of wires. (This cable is really thick and I don't really recommend it but it was something I had around)
Sound-wise there is basically no difference but I think it looks better than the stock cable.
It seems to be a hard work lol. Can't believe terminating 16 AWG wires to headphones. My highest is 18 AWG.Made my first cable with 16 guage amazon basics speaker cable, I had some of them left after I sold my speaker setup and I always wanted to learn how to make a cable so I tried to use stuff I had laying around, it was really fun and in the future I may make some mmcx cable for my ier z1r if I could find a good source of wires. (This cable is really thick and I don't really recommend it but it was something I had around)
Sound-wise there is basically no difference but I think it looks better than the stock cable.
Dynamo5561
100+ Head-Fier
And after long planning and part selection I could finish my Susvara cable today 
Nice jobAnd after long planning and part selection I could finish my Susvara cable today
Where did you get the small silver plugs? They look dope.
Dynamo5561
100+ Head-Fier
From here: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005...o2deu&spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef5c5fVt63XJ
I ordered 3 different pairs and this matched best with the Susvara and it has very good quality.
Thank you!
This thread is full of beautiful, hand braided, colourful cables, expertly made with such a finish that puts to shame a lot of so called hi-end commercial cables. I feel embarrassed to post here, I do not have the artistry of you guys, nor the patience.
I am utilitarian !
Hence my humble cable looks nothing like your cables, it is just a means to an end.
So what was my end? :
I have a Chord Hugo2 DAC that I connect to my phone (average Huawei) with a USB cable. Headphones are Hifiman Edition XS (these days). This setup sounds very good and if you give it good recordings, specially in Hi-Res it rewards you with excellent results.
Hi-Res material takes a lot of storage!
So I need lots of storage. The phone has 128GB onboard, also (max.) 256GB card. That is not enough! So I devised this:
- A thin soft USB cable of about a meter long.
- Built onto it a USB Hub and some storage (512GB in this case), and a micro-USB plug to connect to the DAC.
- Since the power to juice this HUB/Storage comes from the phone, it should be very efficient with power usage, or I risk the phone running dry after a long flight!
- It has to be small and light.
- Should not heat up.
- Also since my DAC is very revealing and sensitive, any RFI or EMI can spice up the fine details. The Cable must be shielded, ferrite core filtered.
At first I made some using a Nano-USB Hub and a microSD card reader. It worked fine, but used to get a little too hot for my liking and as my Android phone had it, unless you remembered to unmount (eject) the card through onscreen menu, you risked the card being partition damaged and unreadable. I could re-instate the partition table on my laptop, but it was a hassle.
At any rate, I left it on a plane to LA!
So recently I made this:
- The impedance of the cable is low enough that if used as a charging cable, Hugo2 can draw its 1.8A and go into fast charge mode.
- Beneath the heatshrink on the Hub/Storage there is a grounded copper foil shroud to guard against RFI, the cable is also shielded.
- there is 512GB storage, so when the cable is connected to the phone, it shows up as USB external disk, the phone also connects to the DAC through the Hub.
- I deliberately used a USB2 Hub because USB3 is power hungry! the cable under normal use (playing a track from the storage into the DAC) burns 95mA, which is as low as I could get it to. I easily get 10 hours of playback (if I wanted to) from a full charge and nominal phone usage in a day.
- The Ferrite core (a tiny one) is made as a common-mode rejector, in an attempt to guard against RFI.
- The bandwidth is a full 300Mb/s (Hub's limit) or about 38MB/s writing or reading from storage.
- Weighs only a few grams.
- The storage is a tiny USB flash disk. For some reason, even yanking it off the phone without ejecting does not render it un-readable (I tried a good few times).
- It keeps its cool! only warmish to touch.
- I can play any track up to at 32/768KHz or any DSD without a glitch to my DAC (Chord users know what I mean).
Bottom line, It Works!
I am utilitarian !
Hence my humble cable looks nothing like your cables, it is just a means to an end.
So what was my end? :
I have a Chord Hugo2 DAC that I connect to my phone (average Huawei) with a USB cable. Headphones are Hifiman Edition XS (these days). This setup sounds very good and if you give it good recordings, specially in Hi-Res it rewards you with excellent results.
Hi-Res material takes a lot of storage!
So I need lots of storage. The phone has 128GB onboard, also (max.) 256GB card. That is not enough! So I devised this:
- A thin soft USB cable of about a meter long.
- Built onto it a USB Hub and some storage (512GB in this case), and a micro-USB plug to connect to the DAC.
- Since the power to juice this HUB/Storage comes from the phone, it should be very efficient with power usage, or I risk the phone running dry after a long flight!
- It has to be small and light.
- Should not heat up.
- Also since my DAC is very revealing and sensitive, any RFI or EMI can spice up the fine details. The Cable must be shielded, ferrite core filtered.
At first I made some using a Nano-USB Hub and a microSD card reader. It worked fine, but used to get a little too hot for my liking and as my Android phone had it, unless you remembered to unmount (eject) the card through onscreen menu, you risked the card being partition damaged and unreadable. I could re-instate the partition table on my laptop, but it was a hassle.
At any rate, I left it on a plane to LA!
So recently I made this:
- The impedance of the cable is low enough that if used as a charging cable, Hugo2 can draw its 1.8A and go into fast charge mode.
- Beneath the heatshrink on the Hub/Storage there is a grounded copper foil shroud to guard against RFI, the cable is also shielded.
- there is 512GB storage, so when the cable is connected to the phone, it shows up as USB external disk, the phone also connects to the DAC through the Hub.
- I deliberately used a USB2 Hub because USB3 is power hungry! the cable under normal use (playing a track from the storage into the DAC) burns 95mA, which is as low as I could get it to. I easily get 10 hours of playback (if I wanted to) from a full charge and nominal phone usage in a day.
- The Ferrite core (a tiny one) is made as a common-mode rejector, in an attempt to guard against RFI.
- The bandwidth is a full 300Mb/s (Hub's limit) or about 38MB/s writing or reading from storage.
- Weighs only a few grams.
- The storage is a tiny USB flash disk. For some reason, even yanking it off the phone without ejecting does not render it un-readable (I tried a good few times).
- It keeps its cool! only warmish to touch.
- I can play any track up to at 32/768KHz or any DSD without a glitch to my DAC (Chord users know what I mean).
Bottom line, It Works!
I assembled the upgrade cable to work with my HD 800, the cable I use is the signal cable XLR of Nordost Heimdall , used lead Mundorf Supreme , and connector of Plussound.
result..
It has a much more natural vocal, clearer, cleaner sound than the stock cable.
result..
It has a much more natural vocal, clearer, cleaner sound than the stock cable.
cpu235
100+ Head-Fier
I wanted to practice making iem cables so I bought some 26awg hookup wire to practice, it was a bit stiff but works okay. The soundstage was narrower and sounded "tinny" and harsh, bass was slightly increased but not by much. It was dirt cheap though (under $10 for 100ft/30m) so I am happy with it.
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