[f iDeL]

Hi! Finally I found time and recable my HD668B! (also did some mods)
Hope you like it!
My first recable ever...
 

 


 


 


 


 

 

[melancholy]

I'm considering buying the following cable to do a rewire on my Grado SR125's. 
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150819113739&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123
 
I've checked other places, Redco/Markedtek, but they both want quite a bit in shipping 10$ to start.
 
 
I can't find any Mogami on ebay right now, the W2893 seems popular. I'm planning on just wire for my first try. No sheathing. 
There are a couple 3.5mm Neutrik NYS231BG on ebay too.
 
 
Is this a fair idea? Very open to suggestions.
 
Side note: How do you create the stress relief inside the cans with a zip tie?

 

[Armaegis]

There really isn't any stress relief to speak of. Just put a piece of shrink wrap near where it'll enter the cups, and pull a zip tie real tight. You can also tie a knot.
 
My ad hoc method of making a strain relief sometimes it to take the spring out of a cheap click-pen (and sometimes shrink wrap on top).

 

[limpidglitch]

I would advice against the canare L-4E6S, even the L-4E5C has a rather excessive girth for your application.

 

[melancholy]

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I would advice against the canare L-4E6S, even the L-4E5C has a rather excessive girth for your application.

Could you suggest/point me to, something better?

 

[limpidglitch]

My primary advice would be to re-purpose the Grado cable, if you don't want to do this the 2893 is really the only freely available beginner friendly option. 

 

[Shootinputin187]

Can you build a headphone cable out of speaker cable?

 

[Shootinputin187]

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Technically you can, but speaker wire is pretty large. (usually 14-20AWG)
 
It would be an extremely non-flexible cable, but would work fine, if you're able to fit them into the plug/connectors.
 
Hook-up wire would be for the better.

Whats a hook up wire?

 

[limpidglitch]

Used to wire up components within devices.
If you go for this you're pretty much limited to 100m spools from the big suppliers, like this.

 

[ardgedee]

20 AWG is the largest I've ever heard anybody make headphone cables from, and that was for an HE-6, which is already so large and heavy that the added mass of the cable isn't as significant. I don't think there are any phone plug housings that could fit three strands of 14 AWG...

You don't want to use anything larger than 24 AWG.

It is fairly easy to get small spools of hookup wire (for example), but much hookup wire is solid-core, which is bad for headphone cables.

I've used "speaker wire" from hardware stores before, and keep some handy in a scrapbox (there's some working as a grounding strap from my receiver to the wall as I write this). It's usually 24 AWG or so -- it's actually just zipcord with a clear rubber insulator and one of the lines is tinned -- and does not look or feel nice at all -- but it is cheap, and might be something good to practice your soldering with.

 

[Shootinputin187]

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20 AWG is the largest I've ever heard anybody make headphone cables from, and that was for an HE-6, which is already so large and heavy that the added mass of the cable isn't as significant. I don't think there are any phone plug housings that could fit three strands of 14 AWG...

You don't want to use anything larger than 24 AWG.

It is fairly easy to get small spools of hookup wire (for example), but much hookup wire is solid-core, which is bad for headphone cables.

I've used "speaker wire" from hardware stores before, and keep some handy in a scrapbox (there's some working as a grounding strap from my receiver to the wall as I write this). It's usually 24 AWG or so -- it's actually just zipcord with a clear rubber insulator and one of the lines is tinned -- and does not look or feel nice at all -- but it is cheap, and might be something good to practice your soldering with.

Thank you for your information, i really appreciate this.
 
Does anybody know how to do a recabling on sennheiser IE60's? they dont have removable cable, but can you dissasemble it or something?

 

[ardgedee]

That's not going to be easy. You'll have to cut the existing cables and splice in and solder new cables. For a clean job, you'll have to cut the shell open to do that, then rebuild the housing with plastic or epoxy. Alternately you can cut the shell open, cut the existing cables and splice in a socket block so that you can plug/unplug your cables.

 

[Shootinputin187]

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That's not going to be easy. You'll have to cut the existing cables and splice in and solder new cables. For a clean job, you'll have to cut the shell open to do that, then rebuild the housing with plastic or epoxy. Alternately you can cut the shell open, cut the existing cables and splice in a socket block so that you can plug/unplug your cables.

Ok, so not gonna happen. Just one more guestion, is it better to solder a DIY cable into both earpieces or just solder to the existing left side of the Senn HD598's? I can't find a plug for that so i have to solder it directly to the driver(s).

 

[liquidzoo]

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Ok, so not gonna happen. Just one more guestion, is it better to solder a DIY cable into both earpieces or just solder to the existing left side of the Senn HD598's? I can't find a plug for that so i have to solder it directly to the driver(s).

That's really up to you, honestly.
 
For the plug, you could always use something like this to make the cable removable.

 

[Bad and Quiet]

LOD for Nano2 in the jack are two capacitors