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In Reply to: Re: DIY by Chris VenHaus DIY Silver Interconnects Cable posted by HumanMedia on March 5, 2007 at 01:58:13:
I have made many pairs of balanced XLR sets. BUT, the recipe I ended up with is a take off of Chris VH's original design. All of my ICs are a DBS (DIELECTRIC-BIAS SYSTEM) design off of Chris's original design. Also the wire I use now is not silver. So the XLR connectors work excellent with the wire I use now which is Alumiloy made by JPS Labs. The connectors I use for balanced ICs are from Vampire. For single ended I use Silver Bullets. I have found that the Vampire connectors are very inexpensive for the performance/sonics.The best XLR connectors, that is a tough one. There are many real high end XLR connectors. They can cost $60+ a piece. The best that I have tried are the Furutech FP-601(M) and FP-602(F). Chris sells them on his site (www.vhaudio.com). In my opinion, they sound a bit different/better then the Vampire connectors, but not enough of a difference when I was comparing them to use them. Chris VH outlines how to wire up the XLR cable on his DIY site.
I am not sure what information you are looking for so here are just a few more tips that I think may be of interest. I like and use Cardas Quad Eutectic solder, no matter the conductors used. Burn the cables in before use, it will still take a few days with burned in cables for them to start to come into their own. Silver wire can take up to 200 hours of burn-in before really opening up and smoothing out (otherwise they are a bit bright and thin at first, especially in the HF). The best center core (and I have experimented with everything I could emagine and read that others tried) is using the teflon center core from Belden 89259 or Belden 1695A. Be sure to remove the center core wire before using unless you are building a DBS cable. It takes alot of time to build these cables correctly, it is worth using the best materials you can find and afford. Above is a pic of the Vampire XLR and a no-connector cable attached to a Proceed DAP (dac) I built using Chris VH's base recipe.
Good luck and have fun!
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