[ostewart]

2 recent cables, after not making any for a long time...

Van Damme mini starquad sheathed for my brothers German Maestro's and some OCC copper I got ages ago for my Grado SR60's

 

[BowWazoo]

It's like meditation

 

[BowWazoo]

 

[Kentajalli]

It's like meditation

Personally, I am a fan of heatshrinks. I have different sizes and colours.
I would put a small size short sleeve on each conductor. Once all wires are soldered, I slide the sleeves all the way up to the solder points and shrink them. It stops the conductors ever to touch and cause short circuit.
I also use a larger sleeve over all four, and slide that on top of everything (the conductors, the cable grip etc.) and shrink that too, for strength, to reduce movement due to constant plugging/unplugging.
Of course, you got to use the right size/thickness heatshrinks as to not bulk up the thing too much.

 

[BowWazoo]

I go a different way, and insulate each solder point with a piece of electrical tape, and then put 1 heatshrink over it.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Personally, I am a fan of heatshrinks. I have different sizes and colours.
I would put a small size short sleeve on each conductor. Once all wires are soldered, I slide the sleeves all the way up to the solder points and shrink them. It stops the conductors ever to touch and cause short circuit.
I also use a larger sleeve over all four, and slide that on top of everything (the conductors, the cable grip etc.) and shrink that too, for strength, to reduce movement due to constant plugging/unplugging.
Of course, you got to use the right size/thickness heatshrinks as to not bulk up the thing too much.

That sounds heavy duty! Would be cool to see some pics as you go. I thought to try shrinkwrap but even on my AES/EBU connectors I don't see much room to work.

 

[musicinmymind]

AKG K3003 stock cables worn out after 7 years use, also 4.4 plugs on ALO Ref 8 had loose connection.
I repurpose both for amazing sounding IEM. The glued heat shrink tubing looks bad, but will last for years to come.

 

[damascato]

 

[musicinmymind]

Wow dude, you are real craftsman. Which cables did you use internally?

 

[damascato]

Wow dude, you are real craftsman. Which cables did you use internally?

Mostly they are 22awg hybrids

 

[musicinmymind]

Mostly they are 22awg hybrids

Can you pls post the link to get thouse wires

 

[Andrew LB]

LOL I best not get into an argument here I have been in more cable studies than you can count and conducted some tests when people claimed certain things they could not replicate in a blind study. One person claimed he could hear a difference in two identical interconnect cables I built. He could, half the time lol. I do not do pseudo science so I am often skeptical when someone says they cooked an AC cord and it made a miraculous difference lol. I got ahold of the same cable cooker and offered to give the person a dozen cables and all he had to do was tell me which six I cooked per his instructions. I then heard every excuse in the book why he could not accept the challenge lol.

I have also done blind studies on DACS, 6sn7 tubes (over 1500 types) and even boutique fuses lol. I go by what large groups can detect, but I did come across one young woman who could pick specific types of wire in blind tests, repeatedly. Mind you she does not know the difference between the wire types but she can pick an average of nine of ten wires correctly just by saying wire 4 is now in location 9, and wire 5 is now in location 2 as we switched 10 types of wire around in a blind test. I designed and built four identical class A tube amps we use for some studies and often we use Senn HD 800 headphones. High strand count copper headphone cables did exceedingly well in those studies when we used a group of 50 participants. In our system without knowing one item from another, one might score a 98 while another might score an 80 or so. One person might say a tube has a slamming bass or whatever, but this system requires many checks over the audio spectrum.
I work through and engineering department that helps set up some tests, others I conduct with my own equipment. We went so far as to have music recorded that we use for testing, they show off as many as 25 criteria so a large group knows what to listen for when comparing gear. The audio engineer who handled this for my local audio group is fairly well known in classical music recording.
My local group consists of at least eight engineers, five audio engineers, a couple physicists, and some random mathematicians and metallurgists. This can sound a bit boring but have also done such things as assembling the exact equipment used in the TV series Bosch, just to see what it sounded like lol

So where can i find all the documentation for these studies, including setup, equipment, info on subjects, results, and conclusions? By the sound of things, your group were quite thorough and must have extensive amounts of information. I'd very much like to give it all a read.

 

[Paladin79]

So where can i find all the documentation for these studies, including setup, equipment, info on subjects, results, and conclusions? By the sound of things, your group were quite thorough and must have extensive amounts of information. I'd very much like to give it all a read.

It is a private group that I no longer run but we hope to publish results along with some newer comparisons.

Oh and I am retired now so I have less access to my work with cables since those studies stayed with the company I ran.

 

[PsilocybinCube]

It is a private group that I no longer run but we hope to publish results along with some newer comparisons.

Oh and I am retired now so I have less access to my work with cables since those studies stayed with the company I ran.

I have a custom cable from Paladin to go with my ZMF Verite and I will say...I like it even more than the $400 cable I purchased from ZMF. It sounds...cleaner? more transparent? It's hard to articulate the differences, but they are there when I A/B in my studio.

 

[krunchcrispy]

My apologies if this has been answered, but could anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to change an IEM cable into a cable that has 3.55 plug on both ends? I have some older IEM cables that I never use, but have a need for some inter-connects. Thanks in advance.