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- hardware@lemmy.world
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- hardware@lemmy.world
‘Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric’ doesn’t help.
‘Black Pearl solid silver conductors drawn in diamond coated dies and insulated with virgin FEP dielectric’ doesn’t help.
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.
Is this like crimping your own network cables? Or are you talking more rudimentary?
Audio cables. I’m a musician and audio engineer. Soldering two or three conductor wire to 1/4” phono jacks.
What cables are you using? I can highly recommend Sommer cables, especially Spirit XXL for guitar/bass.
Mogami cables and Square Plug jacks. Both straight and right angles.
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.
The initial investment of a high quality iron goes a long way. And is worth it.
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.
once you get a crimper it’s really easy