Originally Posted by Mikey01 As far as recableing the DT 880's, I just did it.<snip> It was very easy as I did not know how the DT 880's were assembled or how to disassemble them.<snip> I found it to be overly easy to do.
Mikey01, I've a set of 880's been meaning to recable but I'm not sure how to crack open the cans. Care to share?
Thanks
Steve ..
Papa Zed: If you don't want to do the modification yourself you can send the headphones to Headroom and they will modify your headphones with cardas cable for about 190 USD I think...
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Originally Posted by Papa Zed Mikey01, I've a set of 880's been meaning to recable but I'm not sure how to crack open the cans. Care to share?
Thanks
Steve ..
I got the blue cable "CAT5" from work. Gray would be boring but don't they also come in yellow? And as far as disassembly goes: The padded ear pieces just slip off. Then I used a very small screw driver to pry up and off the black ring with the foam. Then the rest just falls out (be careful). Now for the other end. I soldiered the right channel (I made green/green-white wire) to the bottom end of the stereo plug (or the tip). Then I soldiered the left channel (I made brown/brown-white wire) to the middle post of the plug. The longest part of the plug is the ground. Both (orange/orange-white and blue/blue-white) ground wires get soldiered to it. The stereo plug had a spring sleeve and I also added a piece of heat shrink over the blue cable to help it ride well inside the spring (but did not shrink it). I gave the blue cable that heat shrink overcoat so it fit snuggly inside the spring sleeve. The blue cable fit very snug through the left headphone cup rubber fitting and needed nothing else. Be careful and patient and everything should go well. You will be adding two wires to each voice coil positive and negative posts as opposed to only having one before. So now you have much more copper carrying sound to the voice coils which should effect the sound, even if only a little, after breakin.
Also I want to mention that on Saturday I only ran the CAT5 cable to the left earcup. Inside the left earcup there is a solder pad junction to solder wires to it and continue over the headband to the right earcup. I did not do this. For the little bit of 8 inches or so, what would it matter, right? WELLLL I was wrong in doing that. There was a sound improvement, with the initial cable install, but something was dimished also, in both channels. However the balance from left to right was OK. So, not being satisfied last night, I finished running the CAT5 wires over to the right side. WOW, that made a difference. Anything that was ever wrong with the DT880's is now corrected. What was wrong with them was very little. But now they have a pedigree of the highest order in it's price nich and well beyond. Much resolve and little better base. The highs are tamed also. I always wondered if cable changes were worth it or if you had to have Superman's ears to hear the change. But with change it was worth it argonomicaly wise as well as audible. The new CAT 7 cable has groups of four wires which are shielded as well as an overall shield. It has better transmission qualities too. I might try that next. The DT 880's have bag loads of detail, IMHO, so I am not worried about silver wire which aids in that function. The copper lends itself to more warmth and musicality. If anyone knows what the diameter of CAT7 is to CAT5 and also a comment on the flexibility issue would be welcome.
Audable pluses are (1) twisted wire; Symmetrical field interactions: By using the braiding technique described, it substantially reduces any asymmetrical field interactions since no pair (or wire) "rides" on either the inside or outside of the cable more than any other pair/wire.
(2) Copper stranded wire; The copper ads warmth and the stranding aids in flexibility.
(3) Low inductance: It has been demonstrated that low inductance is a desirable quality to have in a headphone cable due to the strong relationship between inductance and signal risetime.
(4) It's CHEAP and EASY to do.
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