DIY cable gallery

[Grand Enigma]

Look! It's a crapPod dock!

[ayt999]

Look! It's a crapPod dock!

you make those too now? lovely design... I assume that the bend radius isn't small enough so you can't use it with a stacked ipod / amp? (although it probably doesn't matter much if you're expanding your "portable" rig to include a bulky amp and other junk... might as well go for the largest footprint possible while you're at it.)

I must say that is a great name.

[Grand Enigma]

you make those too now? lovely design... I assume that the bend radius isn't small enough so you can't use it with a stacked ipod / amp? (although it probably doesn't matter much if you're expanding your "portable" rig to include a bulky amp and other junk... might as well go for the largest footprint possible while you're at it.)

I must say that is a great name.

Thought about it to spite someone but not sure I really care enough to...

I do make these now however

[hungrych]

That is a sexy pen.

[Grand Enigma]

[Grand Enigma]

Finally got around to making myself a Senn cable

[PFKMan23]

Finally got around to making myself a Senn cable

Pretty plug

[n_maher]

Finally got around to making myself a Senn cable

Looks great! Nice and flexible.

[soloz2]

I gave my Beyer DT70 Pro/80's a new cable today

[deepak]

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[postjack]

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[soloz2]

wow you guys are something else! I put a new cable on my personal cans and post pictures that do not have any branding on them at all, nor are they on my website and I get comments like this, yet almost all the pictures in this thread are posted by Grand Enigma without a single comment. I don't care if you guys want to call things how you think you see them but at least be fair about things.

[hYdrociTy]

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[Dusty Chalk]

I like the black Beyers.

[philodox]

wow you guys are something else! I put a new cable on my personal cans and post pictures that do not have any branding on them at all, nor are they on my website and I get comments like this, yet almost all the pictures in this thread are posted by Grand Enigma without a single comment. I don't care if you guys want to call things how you think you see them but at least be fair about things.

Its a joke Jacob.

[postjack]

Its a joke Jacob.

DIY

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[soloz2]

I know it's a joke, I just wasn't in the mood this morning... right before I saw this my puppy chewed on the cable on my Beyers... so I was pissed from that. When I was able to do a further inspection I realized that I caught her fast enough that there wasn't any damage so no real harm done

[hYdrociTy]

but you ARE a mot right

I remember those heatshrinks with SOLOZ AUDIO on them

[JBLoudG20]

fucking Member of the Trades slanging their shit around here on our front porch.

[Grand Enigma]

What is a MOT and who is this Grand Enigma fella?

[hYdrociTy]

fucking Member of the Trades slanging their shit around here on our front porch.

THAT IN CLUDES YOU MISTER MAKE CABLES AND AMPS AND STUFF AND EVEN EXPO CABLES AT CHICAGO MEET

[soloz2]

but you ARE a mot right

I remember those heatshrinks with SOLOZ AUDIO on them

you got me!

[deepak]

Its a joke Jacob.

Holy shit there's two of them now

[n_maher]

Ever wonder what was inside that insanely expensive Zu mobius headphone cable. Well, I did and considering that I'm converting my headphone rig over to balanced and wasn't about to shell out the current asking price of ~$400 for a balanced version I decided to do it myself.

Step 1: hack off existing 1/4" plug.

Wow, that's a lot of conductors for a headphone cable. A total of 8 w/ 3 different sizes, all silver plated copper.

Step 2: deal w/ scratchy techflex and something else...

Hmm, evidently this cable is shielded. In fact the shield and the two largest conductors are all tied to ground at the plug. Seems like an awful lot of effort since headphone cables have never been known to pick up noise that I'm aware of.

Step 3: expose a length of wire to work with

At this point I figured which conductors went with which connector and so on. The + signal is carried by two smaller (28 ga) conductors for each channel and the - is carried by a single (24ga) conductor. The two 18ga conductors act as another shield I guess since they aren't tied to the Senn plugs, only the 1/4" plug. Again, pretty odd construction but hey I like the way it sounds so I should really stop complaining.

Step 4: attach new 4-pin XLR

That's it, all done. Well, in truth I made a matching balanced to single ended adapter but that's really boring so I didn't bother taking a picture of it.

[grawk]

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