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RE: Possible good choice for headphone cable??

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In Reply to: RE: Possible good choice for headphone cable?? posted by Tweaker456 on August 21, 2017 at 10:11:50

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.

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13DoW

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RE: Possible good choice for headphone cable?? - Tweaker456 19:00:43 08/21/17 (0)
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.
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RE: Possible good choice for headphone cable?? - Duster 17:39:34 08/21/17 (0)
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.

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