[Paavola]

My latest creation, Vela-xlr. The cable is hand-braided from silver-teflon wire. All dielectrics (in addition to teflon) are cotton. Also the teflon wires are insulated from each other with cotton. Screening is added for emi protection. The white color seen through nylon screening is white cotton.

I have also made unbalanced version from this cable.

 

[EFN]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif EFN, great work on the cable. Its so clean looking... Next task out is to make a suitable cable for your SRM-001.

Heh it will take awhile for me to brave myself to mess up with Electrostatic cables!

 

[EFN]

I received my Sillver wires from Qables last night and went straight ahead rebuilding my Switchcraft Mini-Mini. Much simpler and thinner now

 

[Hevimees]

I wanted to try silver interconnects, so I made this:

Solid silver wire in a four wire round braid. The dielectric is heatshrink.

So far I really like the sound of this cable, so at some time in the future I'll probably change the connectors to silver ones and put the cable iniside a nylon braid.

 

[skyline889]

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Originally Posted by snowball_rx-7 /img/forum/go_quote.gif how much did they charge you per foot? im really tempted to build a jena labs knock off interconnect, how much worse than the $3 per foot for vampire cryo is it?

Jena charges $6 a foot plus shipping, not too bad, though definitely not the cheapest wire available either.

 

[soloz2]

LOD for my Zen Vision:M that I made the other day.



Homegrown OFHC copper
Neutrik plug
slim LOD
Cardas solder

 

[skyline889]

Nice work soloz. What awg copper is that? 24?

 

[EFN]

Some docks I made for fellow Head-Fiers. Simple to the bone but functional. Nothing fancy.

 

[soloz2]

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Originally Posted by skyline889 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nice work soloz. What awg copper is that? 24?

22 awg.

 

[PcWork]

24 AWG 6N pure Copper Wire, 8 line braid configuration.
this baby sounds good. bass is very deep extend indeed....
better sounding than 4E6S.
Neutrik Plugs, with customized barrer.

 

[sinsiang]

PCwork nice braid, any tutorials?

 

[FA22RaptorF22]

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Originally Posted by skyline889 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Jena charges $6 a foot plus shipping, not too bad, though definitely not the cheapest wire available either.

Ya, i sent you a pm also....do you think i should just call them? I emailed days ago and haven't had a response...

And that stuff is going to get pricy...
You figure 6$ a ft per wire, with 4 runs for a headphone cable (left, right, and a ground to each side), plus shielding wire, sleeving, heatshrink, solder, and termination. that cable ends up being around excesses of 40$ / ft. Ouch...and i wanted a 10 ft xlr to xlr.... guess ill just make the xlrs out of star quad...

But let me know what you think about how to order the wire, thanks.

And...pcwork, you must show us how to do that kind of braid....thats one hot cable.

 

[soloz2]

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Originally Posted by FA22RaptorF22 /img/forum/go_quote.gif And...pcwork, you must show us how to do that kind of braid....thats one hot cable.

it's just like this IC

 

[mminutel]

5' Interconnect made with Silver Plated Copper and Neutrik ends. 1/8" Techflex was used for the sleeving.

I think it is descent for my first try. I do not have heatshrink on the ends or anything but I will as soon as I buy some descent stuff. I would also like to try something other than techflex for my cables as it seems kind of stiff. Any suggestions?

 

[soloz2]

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Originally Posted by mminutel /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would also like to try something other than techflex for my cables as it seems kind of stiff. Any suggestions?

nylon multifilament