What A Busy Weekend with Creek Sugden & Grado

[huangyong 0]

Rameish, you got a v2???

[Blues 0]

huangyong: it's evil zen's ...

 

[Rameish 0]

Here's a picture of a mini to RCA cable I made from what's left of the former Sennheiser HD-600 cable. The cable is made of 13 stands of litz wire of approx 33 AWG (a common AWG for tonearm cable :-). I used this cable partly because it was made available to me for free (thanks to Lengcm who gave me the stock Senn HD-600 cable) and mainly because of the properties of Litz wire. Litz wire is basically twisted magnet wire that is individually insulated to combat the skin effect. As such I figured that the low output of PCDP (0.6 volts in the case of the Panasonic SLCT 470) would benefit from Litz wire. If you've ever been curious and plugged in a headphone into the lineout of your PCDP you'll know how low the output is. Although, 0.6 volt is high by even moving magnet cartridge (for turntables) standards, I figured it was in the low range. Of course to fully benefit from this I need to use some Bullet Plugs (thanks to Beldin who gave me a couple of these).

 

The result? Well it's a lot better than the Straightwire mini to RCA and it's a hell of alot better in terms of flexibility.

Edited August 28, 2003 by Rameish

[N@Z 0]

Those bullet plugs make the cable look so wimpy!

[Rameish 0]

Here's another picture of my so called ultimate portable setup consisting of the Panasonic SLCT470 -> Bullet Plug/Senn HD-600 Litz Mini to RCA -> Clone RA-1 -> Ety 4P.

[fishball79 0]

Rameish,

 

You recycled the orignal sennheiser cable for ur interconnects ar... how are they?

Opps pardon me... didn't notice the post above describing them...

 

 

Edited August 28, 2003 by fishball79

[Rameish 0]

Well fish, I'm not really a fan of the portable. I have very few RCA to mini cables lying around - the homebrew PBJ clone with canare plugs all round, the straightwire I bought from headroom in a different lifetime and this bullet plug/Litz wire.

 

The main thing is this is very flexible. Will test it out if I have the time. Right now I have a backlog of things to do.

 

I just soldered the thing together because the parts were lying around - everthing but the solder was given to me by fellow members. LOL

[Rameish 0]

It's better than the Straightwire though I havnt changed the RCA to bullet plugs - anyone else wants to pass me a couple.

 

N@Z, I thought I showed you the bullet plugs when you were in sg? Ya they do look and feel cheap but the logic behind it is immaculate IMHO.

 

Hmm.. am thinking of combining a couple of diff AWG of Litz with a solid core with teflon sheath - cable qeo will probably GQ braid or ortthogonal braid (if I can get silk tassle) ;-).

 

Wish I could do the sums as well. Aslo looking for a couple of copper collars for the ends. The techflex the damn thing. Hmmm...could be a big boo boo though.

 

With cables you can never know till the last solder is done and cooked.

 

Hmm...fish anyplace that sell 5N silver litz? Don't have right??

[N@Z 0]

Yes you showed me your 'freebie' Bullet plugs.

 

I like the sound of you hombrew PBJ clone (are we still on for that?) it sounded very respectable on your Clone RA-1 & portable. I want to compare it with my Marketek & Canare mini to mini.

[Rameish 0]

N@Z,

 

I just like experimenting with stuff - of course we're still on for that - been there done that. I'll just charge you for parts ya :-)

[lengcm 0]

Alritghty then just got my digital cam back from Rameish. A pic of the Consonance 1.1 guts.

Edited August 30, 2003 by lengcm