Failed Soundmagic PL-21 recable. Probably due to my noob soldering skills.

Left side no audio, might have fried the left driver
Right side low volume, most probably didn't terminate it properly on the jack.

Used cat6 cable and jalan pasar so called "gold plated" 3.5mm jack.

This post has been edited by cyloh: May 10 2011, 06:02 PM

My ADDIEM cable is really bothering me. Anyone able to help me recable it? Will pay for the service of course.
Fabricate a new cable for the IEM(hopefully doesn't cost an arm...) or I can provide my own for a transplant.

I would do it myself but buying the required tools($$$) for a one shot job put me off.
Unsteady hands aren't helping either.

I notice you have immaculate braiding. Any pointers for a beginner like me?

My quad litz braid some parts flat, some parts roundish. Overall uneven. Quite unsettling.

Thanks for the tip

I'm slowly getting used to the flat braid. Training on cat5 cables.

Just found out there is a round/chain braid. Will try that out.

Now... It seems that i cant find a tutorial on 6 or 8 braids.... Is it some sort of trade secret?

What is the reason/benefits of having 2-3 signal and 1 ground?

Yeap, I tested 8 braid using 4 crossed pairs first.

So far I prefer round braid over flat braid. It is easier to get consistent, looks better and more flexible too.

After half a dozen cat5 testing, now going to make one using canare star quad.

24awg ofc recabled. still polishing my skills. not sure what to do with making a reinforced y-split.
used 1/4" plug instead of 1/8" because I can't seem to fit the cables in the plug properly. also 1/8" plug too miniature for my shaky hands to solder...

Bought 20meter vztec branded cat5e cable today, wanting to make lots of el'cheapo cables(training and testing purposes). It said 24awg on it.
I'm not even expecting it to be OFC. Lousy but shiny copper strands will do.

Cable was extremely soft before stripping the cat5 tube. When I opened it up....... 26awg and it is not copper! Stranded steel!

Superlux 669 recabled with canare star quad 2M

In the future might dampen the cups, bling up the headphones and probably do multifilament nylon sleeving if I have the extra budget

Not much, slightly louder and clearer only.

Open both sides and look for the wire that has same color. Usually ground / - wire is same color.

Else just look for a red dot. Usually they drip 1 dot of red ink or something to indicate where is the +

And another example reference for you(although might not apply to all headphones)... so far I've recabled 2 headphones, Left is - and right is +

Or you just settle the plug, braid the cables, then strip the ends that you supposed to solder to the drivers.
Connect the cable to your mp3 player and play something, touch the stripped ends of your cable lightly on the drivers to experiment which is left channel, which is + or - etc.....

Yeap, then that should be the case

Yes its possible either way (dual sided to single or single to dual). Just a matter of how your headphone design is like, and if its not possible, how you're going to work around it.

Just make sure both sides don't share a single ground cable.

I.C Electronics sells Canare F12 for RM20....