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22awg twist litz. Could be a good alternative to the outrageously priced Cardas 24awg. Anyone ever try it?
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
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Very inexpensive 3-conductor litz wire cable. The conductors are litz wire, with a fiber core in the middle of each wire bundle for strength reinforcement, and also serves as a resonance damping core which is beneficial for litz wire.
The Baseus cable is terminated with a 3.5mm stereo plug at each end, but perhaps it could be re-terminated with a connector (or connectors) of your choice. The longest length is 1.5 meter (5 feet).
Make sure to use high-enough heat with flux to dissolve the enamel coating, but not severe enough to affect the fine wire strands.
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I have been very happy with WyWires headphone cables. I have mostly the Red on Massdrop Fostex X00, AKG 702 and my single ended on Ethers. I have a Platinum balanced for the Ethers and another coming for my new HD 800S.
Here we have 40/38 which 22 AWG equivalent unplated copper and advertised as litz, as an alternative to solid core, stranded wire touching each other, and $15 a foot 24AWG litz. I'm told it's "polyester silk". Not sure what that means but this stuff looks pretty good if the insulation isn't real loose as to make it a bunched up mess if twisted. T456
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
Edits: 08/31/17
Is it really litz wire? It sure looks like solid core wire to me.
It's not litz wire. It's stranded copper servo wiring for RC hobby and robotic applications.
It is advertised as litz, servolitze and a person at rc4speed tells me it is litz.
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
You may want to take a look at Norne-Audio they make very good, high quality cables and have reasonable pricing. I am ordering a Draug 2 for my Sennheiser 800 headphone. Great reviews for them as well.
Gotta bone up on my Deutsche.
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
My German is non-existent. Flexibility and microphonics are important for a headphone cable. If the insulation is teflon then it might be both stiff and microphonic and is the wire inside stranded of solid core? Also, looks like three conductors twisted together, I suggestit better to have 2x two-wire twisted pairs, one for each channel.
You could try the Cable forum for more feedback and Head-Fi has a lot of cable DIYers.
Regards
13DoW
It's litz wire, Servolitze. That brings it up to about four words of German in my vocabulary. I would think it unlikely to be teflon coated but not sure. My project, if I ever get to it, will be for an unbalanced cable. I speculate it has a good chance of being a better choice than microphone cable and possibly better than the Cardas because my preferential bias is for a larger gauge, that is, wider diameter wire. Mic cable is generally not, if ever litz wire. To sum it up I'd rather use litz than ordinary stranded and a wider gauge than 24awg. I may risk using solid core?? The cable that Ultrasone tells me they use is 26awg litz.
"The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced."
- Q, 2365
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Good points, 13DoW. A solid Teflon dielectric tends to be better implemented for a cable application that is immobile, with little or no handling involved that would disturb the relationship of the conductor and dielectric. I would also avoid using a litz wire cable for a headphone application for the same reason. I also agree with the notion of individual cable runs for each channel rather than a twisted triad stereo cable with a shared return/ground conductor for both channels.If I were to upgrade a stock headphone cable with a much higher-quality cable, I would consider the VH Audio V-Quad cable featuring a cellular FEP dielectric that might be less prone to dielectric/conductor disturbance than a solid FEP or solid PTFE insulator. The V-Quad features a twisted quad geometry of 24 AWG (21 AWG aggregate) solid core OCC copper conductors with AirLok cellular/foamed FEP dielectric, offering lowered-inductance and better EMI/RFI noise cancelling effect vs. a twisted pair. If one wanted to choose a lower-cost option, a single V-Quad cable could be used as a dual-channel headphone cable, with an individual return conductor implemented for each channel.
Edits: 08/21/17
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