My little tax return present

[Lar]

I did 25 feet, and it all seems to sound just dandy! 

[denti alligator]

Where can I get the Canare cable and the Neutrik jack? Markertek seems to no longer carry the former.

[grufti]

You are probably better off using L-4E5C or L-4E5AT. Those two cables are the less bulky cousins to the L-4E6... types. Markertek probably still has those. You can check the descriptions at the Canare website.

[denti alligator]

You are probably better off using L-4E5C or L-4E5AT. Those two cables are the less bulky cousins to the L-4E6... types. Markertek probably still has those. You can check the descriptions at the Canare website.

Same quality and sonic properties?

[denti alligator]

OK, so I have the Canare cable and the Neutrik jack (the headphone connects are coming from Canada). But I have no clue what to solder where. Anyone?

There's a center hole, a tab underneath that and a second tab in the right angle section. What does where?

[denti alligator]

My hunch is that I take the blue wire (or white) and solder them together with the shield to the second tab as a ground. Then I suspect one channel is the center hole. But what about the other channel? Does it go in the first tab or spread out over the "hood" area?

This doesn't help much, unfortunately: http://www.neutrik.com/zoolu-website/media/download/112/Assembly+Instruction+-+Professional+Phone+Plugs%2C+right+angle+-+PRX+Series

[denti alligator]

OK, so I successfully did this and I'm pretty surprised at how different it sounds. It's got a wider soundstage, and more detail, and is more open on the upper end. More bass, too. I think it's a bit too strong on the high end, but I suspect once it's broken in it will warm up. All in all a nice little project with great results.

[denti alligator]

Here's what I would do differently, and in fact I ordered another pair of connects to re-do the phones end:

The exposed blue and white cables that separate and go to the left and right are very sensitive, and when they touch I can hear it pretty clearly. They heat shrink prevents this, but I only put heat shrink near the split and at the end near the phones. Now that I've epoxied the connects there's no way to undo and slip new heat shrink over, so I'm going to redo this part with heat shrink covering the whole lengths of the left and right cables.

[Maxwell_E]

I noticed there's a little bit of noise from rubbing the cable too, but it hasn't bothered me too much yet. I may get some kind of cloth wrap in the future.

[Lar]

I`m more then happy with the way mine turned out. Its like liquid gold coming threw my HD600`s.

[denti alligator]

I just noticed something disconcerting: the sound was being cut out in part (only in part, not a channel, just some instruments!) based on how the cable was lying in front of me! I moved it about and the sound came back. WTF is that?

[adamct]

Cold solder joint on one of the connectors...