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RE: Anyone Ever Roll Their Own USB Cable??? Duster

Posted by SBGK (A) on June 19, 2012 at 11:54:56

In Reply to: Anyone Ever Roll Their Own USB Cable??? Duster posted by Dynobot on May 14, 2012 at 16:12:43:

have perfected my diy silver core usb and aes/ebu cable

saved ££££

2m 99.999% 5N 0.4mm silver audio wire = £10.56

1m cat5e foil wrapped cable = £2.50

2m 1.5mm shrink sleeve = £3.00

cut silver wire into 4 x .5m lengths

thread into shrink sleeve and then shrink sleeve with heat

twist wire together so you get 2 x .5 m twisted pairs, add tape to 1 core at both ends before twisting so you can identify + and -

cut cat5 cable in half and remove 3 of the pairs, leaving 1 pair, the mylar foil and the ground wire

solder 1 x .5m silver twisted pair to the cat5 twisted pair

pull the cat5 twisted pair so that it draws the silver twisted pair through into the cat5 cable

remove the cat5 twisted pair

repeat for the other cable

terminate the silver twisted pair as required, I also soldered the ground wire to the transmit end connector ground

for the usb cable I separated the wires from a cat5 twisted pair and soldered them to the squeezebox touch +5v and ground and then soldered the other end into the usb B connector.

for the aes cable I grounded the drain wire at the transmit end and just connected the wires to pin 2 and 3, pin 1 left floating.

taped up all ends where the cable joined the connectors

sound is very good, the best I have had from the touch to vlink 192 into the nad m51, have ferrites on the transmit end of both cables.

before I tried the cat5 cable shielding technique I was getting very bad crackling, but now I don't have any.

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