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This lenght does nothing to the sound or crosstalk.Yes but it’s best to minimise this length if possible (crosstalk).....
This lenght does nothing to the sound or crosstalk.Yes but it’s best to minimise this length if possible (crosstalk).....
This lenght does nothing to the sound or crosstalk.
Whether it will be connected in 3 wires on the cable connector or on the adapter has no effect.
While it's not going to make an audible difference
Yep, I saw you already said that, I repeated it to make it clear to others that trying to harp on that and dissuade you from doing the mod based on that aspect doesn't make sense. I didn't understand what the goal was at the top of the thread, but after some clarification in both directions we got here and I'm behind you on it. Aesthetics and liking what you have matters in audio (any many other things), even if it's inside insulation and nobody else can see it, especially a cable that you're using regularly. With that cable I made myself and used as an example, I used red, blue, and two black wires in my cable, even though they won't be seen under the paracord sleeving (which is also black w/red stripe, black w/blue stripe, and two solid black) - I've got three other colors of that identical wire on hand and could have used any to make it easy to match terminals when soldering, or could have just tested conductivity before soldering with the multimeter and used all the same color wire, but it mattered to me that they were the right colors.Yes and I’ve already acknowledged this myself and already explained why I still want to go ahead with re-terminating.
With that cable I made myself
I used 24awg stranded hook up wire I had on hand from other electronics projects. I saw some recommendations to use various mic cables and all that for headphones, but I wanted to sleeve and braid each wire individually so it seemed like a waste to buy specially twisted and grouped cable when I was just going to take it apart, especially with perfectly adequate wire on hand.Which 4 conductor cable did you use?
I used 24awg stranded hook up wire I had on hand from other electronics projects. I saw some recommendations to use various mic cables and all that for headphones, but I wanted to sleeve and braid each wire individually so it seemed like a waste to buy specially twisted and grouped cable when I was just going to take it apart, especially with perfectly adequate wire on hand.
I posted the cable recently on reddit with more details if you're interested: Sundara with Custom Cable
Hi all
I'm looking for a short cable adapter (under 6 inches), 6.3mm (female) to 3.5mm (male), that has 4 conductor wiring inside (L and R grounds are separate and insulated).
I can't use a hard adapter because it's too stiff.
This Sennheiser adapter is 3 conductor, L & R share a common ground (Sennheiser told me):
https://en-de.sennheiser.com/accessories--adapter--jack-plug--gold
Does anyone know of a decent one?
Have you checked the jack that will receive the 3.5 mm male to make sure it has a left and right ground out? I'll bet it has a common ground. I'll bet the same is true of and 3.5 mm "plug".
For the headphones, the spec is 37 Ohm and my measurements of DC resistance are within reason of that. They're planar magnetics, so the impedance is basically flat with frequency, and cable or even amp output impedance doesn't really matter.I see you mentioned you measured impedance. What is it, if you don't mind me asking?
Which 4 conductor cable did you use?
I’m thinking of this also but struggling to find a low impedance 4 conductor cable. Something under 10 ohms. paging @solderdude
My Focal headphones impedance varies from 80 ohm to 300 ohm
Something like thisEasiest way would be to reterminate assuming you can get the cable diameter in the 3.5mm plug.