Headphone Wires?

[Moontan13]

I need some decent portable headphone wires for tinkering around with. I want something a tad better than spider web gauge conductors, but with good limpness.

Cannibalizing a set of cheap phones for the wire is an option.

 

[tjumper78]

try seraching for silver plated copper wires on ebay.
i find them to be very inexpensive, durable, and great sounding.

 

[Moontan13]

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Originally Posted by tjumper78 /img/forum/go_quote.gif try seraching for silver plated copper wires on ebay. i find them to be very inexpensive, durable, and great sounding.

I did see quite a selection of wire on ebay, (nothing headphone specific), but I'm not sure what to look for in terms of guage, etc.

 

[tjumper78]

i've had good results with 24 gauge for recabling sennheiser hd580/600/650.

 

[Moontan13]

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Originally Posted by tjumper78 /img/forum/go_quote.gif i've had good results with 24 gauge for recabling sennheiser hd580/600/650.

Thanks!

 

[edba2000]

Take a look at the following sites:

eBay Store - John's Silver Teflon Wire Shop: Kapton Wire, 26 AWG, 24 AWG

http://www.partsconnexion.com/catalog/wire.html

 

[nickyboyo]

Johnswireshop on ebay is superb, a great selection of nice cables, very cheap and he is very easy to deal with. So many people use his shop, he could be a sponsor here. I was pointed to his shop by a very accomplished cable maker, twice actually. The first time a couple of months ago, and once again today funnily enough.

Ps- pcb makers or case makers, go to his site now, he has a box of miniature carbide cutters for sale that is an absolute bargain.
50 Piece Carbide Micro Router Endmill Assortment PCB - eBay (item 380067851793 end time Oct-03-08 13:59:42 PDT)

 

[bidoux]

What kind of extremely thin and cheap wire is there for the ER4 recabling ?

 

[Lil' Knight]

28awg or even 30awg would be fine.

 

[synaesthetic]

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Originally Posted by bidoux /img/forum/go_quote.gif What kind of extremely thin and cheap wire is there for the ER4 recabling ?

I bought some 30awg teflon-dielectric silver plated copper from Johnswireshop, but I never ended up recabling the ER-4P, as I couldn't figure out how to fabricate the little connectors properly.