[haveblue]

 
I know.....
 
You aren't reading my question correctly. I want to know what to do with the shielding around each of the cables.
 
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4 pin XLR
 
3 - Green - Right+
4 - White - Right-
1 - Red - Left+
2 - White - Left-
 
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[haveblue]

I'll go ahead and solder both shields to the shell ground as stated in this post.
 
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/406502/how-to-diy-balanced-xlr/15#post_5381513

 

[johnwmclean]

You don’t need it. 

 

[haveblue]

Quote:

You don’t need it. 

That makes it a bit easier. Thanks.

 

[johnwmclean]

[size=medium][size=13.0px]Balanced headphones do not require this connection, the only reason would be if the amp were to drive the XLR input of another device, such as a power amplifier, through a male-to-male XLR interconnect cable.

Info is from AMB’s site.
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[coppi]

This is an old thread, but in case anyone is looking, I just got an HD800 and am thinking of how to get it balanced.  Reterminating the stock cable is of course the cheapest solution. Any thoughts on how stock balanced compares to say an Apuresound v3 cable? 
 
Thanks in advance for any tips,
 Paolo

 

[linolt]

Before I cut into my HD800 and destroy it, I’d like to know what this dissection of one channel means (I found this image on google). Why oh why are there 4 little wires, I was expecting 2 per channel. That would have made things alot easier. Now I am hopelessly lost.


Edit: I should explain that I’ll re-terminating to balanced.

 

[nikongod]

 

 
2 wires for left, 2 wires for right. Is four wires. 

 

[guido]

I am recabling a standard HD800 cable to XLR-4 pin balanced.
 
Besides the 4 thin wires [red, green and 2 whites] what is the consensus on  connecting the 2 earth shields as well to pin 2 and 4 of the XLR Neutrik or should I leave them floating?
 
At the moment I have the left the 2 shields floating at the XLR-4-pin side but they are connected by the factory to the 2 mini Sennheiser connector shells at the headphone side...and the cable sounds pretty darned good....so do I leave it as is??