[onocentaur]

Seems like a good idea for a number of reasons: comfort, less tangling, etc. There seem to be couple of headphones out there with cable going to only one side: Senn HD595s for example. It would be possible to convert a pair of double-wired headphones to single-wired by recabling them with a lead passing over the head (with the band) as with some of the Grados in this Headwize article. But would the extra length of wire going to one channel affect the sound? I'm guessing that technically there would be a time delay, but it'd be too small to be differentiable. Or am I wrong?

Perhaps the Senns have an equal length of cable 'hidden' going to the wired channel so that it balances the non-wired side?
Can anyone offer any insights?

 

[alpeggio]

I think Pioneer has headphones with one sided cable.

 

[jdimitri]

All of beyer stock top end cans (770 880 990) have 1 sided cable
So yeah, it has a little cable that goes through the headband

 

[Dimitris]

The Senn HD590 have one sided cable too.

 

[HIPPOhifi]

Sennheiser HD515/HD555/HD595s too.

 

[jwilldermood]

AKG headphones have one sided cords. No time delay, electrons move at the speed 'o light.

 

[Duggeh]

Floats and Ergos have one sided (rear left side) cable entry. But do not compensate for the headband cabling by coiling cable for the left channel. I doubt it makes a bit of difference, if it did, then theyd put in the extra 6 inches and charge you another pound.

 

[onocentaur]

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Originally Posted by jwilldermood /img/forum/go_quote.gif No time delay, electrons move at the speed 'o light.

That was my first instinct but I think it's a little more complicated than that. I googled it and there's some quite obtuse explanations on the speed of current flow out there...

I didn't really expect one-sided headphones to have the extra cable hidden, but I thought I would check. This is good, as it means i can make my Grados one sided without worrying about delay

 

[ecclesand]

The Sony MDR-V6 has a one-sided, coiled cable...and it's pretty cheap!

 

[jdimitri]

I think the problem with some one sided cable headphones is not the delay, but rather the quality of the cable connecting the right and left drivers
Probably not in the AKGs though, since they appearantly use magical flat wire that fits under the headband
Eg in beyers this left-right cable is much thinner (and probably worse quality) than the 'main' cable. Can be addressed by darthing your beyers

 

[Fitz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdimitri /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think the problem with some one sided cable headphones is not the delay, but rather the quality of the cable connecting the right and left drivers Probably not in the AKGs though, since they appearantly use magical flat wire that fits under the headband Eg in beyers this left-right cable is much thinner (and probably worse quality) than the 'main' cable. Can be addressed by darthing your beyers

AKG uses the metal headband rods themselves as the connecting "cable."

 

[Redo]

FWIW, I find one sided cabling on headphones to be more distracting than dual sided.

 

[jinp6301]

hmm i read somewhere on head-fi about phase changes or something when the headphones are wired only on one side.

I know nothing about electronics, can someone explain this to me?

 

[TheDarkTrumpet]

All my current listenening headphones are 1-sided, that being the DT880 and the A900. I don't like it much to be honest. I'd rather just have them the normal Y shape. I'm going to get my DT880s recabled in a few months (already spoke to Larry about it), so that'll be one headphone back to normal.

 

[onocentaur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdimitri /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think the problem with some one sided cable headphones is not the delay, but rather the quality of the cable connecting the right and left drivers

I'm going to shorten the Grado cable and use what I cut off...