[imho]

Check out THESE little nifty gadgets to keep your cords organized! Yeah, no more garbage bag twisties!!! LOL.
Have fun and happy shopping!

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.proc...ductTabDetails
http://cableorganizer.com/cable-turt...N2C01920001379
http://www.containerstore.com/browse...4&PRODID=59992
http://cableorganizer.com/cable-fish...N2C01920001086
http://cableorganizer.com/cord-it/

 

[ShaftedTwice]

The turtle one looks pretty cool, I definately need at least something to stop this madness..

 

[Jahn]

yep, got the sumajin smartwrap and the cable turtle both in my rig, links in my sig. turtle works for 7 ft long cables, sumajin for the shorter runs.

 

[swmtnbiker]

Good stuff. Thanks for the links.

 

[kin0kin]

lol...cable fish looks awesome

 

[ShaftedTwice]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jahn yep, got the sumajin smartwrap and the cable turtle both in my rig, links in my sig. turtle works for 7 ft long cables, sumajin for the shorter runs.

I've seen the smartwrap, that seems pretty sweet too..

 

[lostbobby]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kin0kin lol...cable fish looks awesome

yah, those little figure-8's 're ovepriced but make life a lot easier. I'm waiting for one like my vacuum cleaner's, push button, the slack cord gets reeled in superfast.

 

[feh1325]

the turtle kind is included in these

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=172282

i can't tell if they sound lyk crap, couldn't get a very good fit and ended up selling em to a friend

 

[imho]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lostbobby yah, those little figure-8's 're ovepriced but make life a lot easier. I'm waiting for one like my vacuum cleaner's, push button, the slack cord gets reeled in superfast.

How LAZY can you get? ROFLMAO!

 

[Duggeh]

If you havent got a tangle of cables that would make a console collector envious then you havent got your rig set up properly.

 

[Chri5peed]

Using a cable-tidy like one of these is only going to a negative effect on SQ. Its a proven fact that cables love getting knottted up. How else can a cable be hung neatly to be completely knotted up when next removed?

Do you like being stopped from doing things you like?

 

[threEchelon]

Just be careful how you wrap your cables! Take a look at console controllers where people wrap the cable around the controller every time they're done playing.

Make sure that when you're wrapping a cable around something that you don't twist the cable. Even so, wrapping a cable will wear it out over time. Tis better to make big coils.

 

[jude]

Jahn mentioned the Sumajin Smartwrap products (Sumajin is a Head-Fi Sponsor). They have two different sized Smartwraps, to accommodate thinner and thicker cables.

http://www.sumajin.com/online-Smartwraps.html

 

[Wmcmanus]

I keep my headphones on Office Depot coat racks which I've shortened by taking out the middle piece. So the headphone racks are about the same height as a standard audio rack.

With this storage arrangement, what I've found works best is to let the cords hang down to floor level, but then bunch up any remaining cord length and the plug itself and tuck them away in a cloth pouch of some sort. Audio Technica provides such a pouch with the W5000 and the L3000. This protects the cords and plugs from getting damaged or scratched on the tile floor. It also helps to keep things tidy and to allow me to grab any pair of headphones without having to untangle a pile of cords.

I've found that if the headphone cables are hanging down (as they are with most headphone stands), it puts a lot of downward pull pressure on them if you wrap up the cords with a twistie of some sort (or with the kinds of cord organizers linked to in this thread). The main thing is to make sure the weight of the cord is not suspended in mid air.

I could see these cord organizers working quite well for long, thin cords like the 10' cord on my UE10-Pro. But I can't imagine that it would work so well for thicker, more heavy duty cords.

 

[Wmcmanus]

Quote:

Originally Posted by threEchelon Make sure that when you're wrapping a cable around something that you don't twist the cable. Even so, wrapping a cable will wear it out over time. Tis better to make big coils.

I think this is an important point, and was part of what I was trying to say when I mentioned that it doesn't seem to me that a lot of these products would work well with thicker headphone cords (for full size headphones). They may end up taking on a 'coiled' look even when unwrapped.