'Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric' doesn't help.

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[–] 29 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I started making my own cables. Now I only have to worry about my own shitty craftsmanship. And boy is it shitty.

But hey I get cables at less than half the cost. And it’s fun.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Is this like crimping your own network cables? Or are you talking more rudimentary?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Audio cables. I’m a musician and audio engineer. Soldering two or three conductor wire to 1/4” phono jacks.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    90% of it is making sure you have heavy enough gauge wires, a proper solder join, and (if you are feeling itchy) cable shielding.

    You could buy STP 2-wire, 4-wire, or 8-wire and have plenty for darn near any project.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I hate that shit. With my crappy iron it takes forever to put the solder in place and make sure the wires don't touch each other. I keep putting off repairing the cables on two sets of headphones just because I don't wanna do the soldering, and that's while I need one of them for decent sound and no lag with the DAW. Worse even, I will probably soon need to make another adapter from a 4-pin plug to two jacks, and that's quite a little cramped nest.

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