[ClemBurmingham]

I have to say this is one of my favorite threads.  This and the Post Your Builds Thread always just makes me so anxious to go out, spend all my money, and build everything I can.
Hopefully one day I have a cable I'm proud enough to post here.

 

[dfkt]

Made a straight cable for the TMA-1. Switchcraft angled plug, Neutrik straight plug, Cordial Professional shielded stereo cable, WBT silver solder, two layers of adhesive heat shrink for strain relief.

Interestingly, the stock coiled cable of the TMA-1 measures a resistance of 2.2 Ohm, while my cable measures 0.1 Ohm.

 

[limpidglitch]

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Made a straight cable for the TMA-1. Switchcraft angled plug, Neutrik straight plug, Cordial Professional shielded stereo cable, WBT silver solder, two layers of adhesive heat shrink for strain relief.

Interestingly, the stock coiled cable of the TMA-1 measures a resistance of 2.2 Ohm, while my cable measures 0.1 Ohm.

 

That sort of resistance isn't uncommon, the HD600 cable measures about the same, but still it usually isn't enough to make the headphones perform suboptimal.
 
Tiny tip on that hatshrinking. If you apply them in the reverse order, i.e. short to long, the end result will look smoother

 

 

[3602]

Where do you guys get these jacketing? I'm running out of Techflex and I can't just wrap the entire cable in headshrink, right?

 

[dfkt]

Thanks for the tip. That does look very nice indeed - not only because of the 'hidden' second layer of heatshrink, but also because it's shorter.
 
If it was regular heatshrink on my cable I would cut it to size, but since it's adhesive, I guess I would just mess it up some more.

 

[jageur272]

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Where do you guys get these jacketing? I'm running out of Techflex and I can't just wrap the entire cable in headshrink, right?

If you use a relatively thin 2:1 heatshrink, you're good.  3:1 or adhesive lined heatshrinks are much too stiff.
 
Paracord sheathing is pretty good and shoe string works in a pinch.

 

[HeadCred]

You could almost save time by knitting 16ft feet of bi-wire.

 

[biscut]

what size Techflex are you using?

 

[3602]

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what size Techflex are you using?

Y'talkin' to me? I'll consider it so.
I have no idea. This Techflex came with a wrong order: I ordered 0.5 feet of cable, and they gave me 5 feet while charging me the 0.5 feet price. So I cut that extra 4.5 feet off.

 

[Currawong]

 
While I was checking out the Luxman SQ-N100 in Best Electric, I saw they had a couple of Van Den Hul digital cables going for cheap.  One of them was the triaxial 75 Ohm Professional for about $70.  As I'd picked up some Oyaide BNC plugs elsewhere that really need some fairly thick cable, I took a chance that I could re-terminate the cable with them.  I was more right than I expected!  Van Den Hul plugs use a crimping collet for the signal return and shield. The centre wire is soldered, while the braided return and the shield (or just the return on one end) are bent back over the outer dielectric and the collet crimped on.  The Oyaide plug was the same, but the collet through to the centre pin is one piece, including the dielectric between them.  Thankfully the fit was exactly the same, with only the outer wires being a bit too long.  You can just see behind the right plug a mark where the collet in the VDH plug was crimped at its tightest. You can see from the thickness of the outer section of the VDH plugs just how chunky they are for RCAs. The cable itself is 9mm in diameter IIRC.  

 

[.Sup]

Very nice Curra. Do the BNC plugs "screw on" the connector on a DAC?

 

[drummerdimitri]

Here are some ipod/iphone LODs I custom made for some friends...
 
 

 

[AudioNoob]

Just finished recabling and restoring a LP Sextett, now for sale along my shanling ph 3000

 

[migsev]

Complete noob here in need of help. Basically my IEMs (Denon C710) need to be recabled. I have someone who knows how to do it but I need to provide him the parts. I want a thin, braided cable but don't know where to start. It'd be a lot better for me if it was pre-made. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Not looking for anything overly high end. I just want to get my IEMs working again.

 

[limpidglitch]

Hope this helps somewhat:
 
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/515097/best-wire-for-iems#post_6965679