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Wow Aimless, I'm celebrating my 21st anniversay tonight as well. For us, it's also bee a good 21 years, in spite of all the crap life throws at people. Congrats to you!

56 feet of Two pairs of And a set of I had pretty good luck with the Pro Studio cable and some Neutrik connectors, so I thought I'd try the DH Labs XLR connectors. I'll be building a 25' pair of balanced cables so I can move my gear to a side wall. The remaining 6' will make it into a nice little pair of unbalanced cables. I want to test them 1 to 1 against some of my other cables. Go Partsconnexion.com!

I just read a bit about the J-Low. I had no idea of it before. One thing that stuck out to me was, this comment: "...The JX92S’s didn’t go any lower in frequency than before but they picked up about 10 dB of gain centered in the 70 Hz region, and in fact became bass heavy." I'm not sure I'd like to go through that much cutting and gluing only to find that the driver wasn't going to stand up to what I was expecting. So to speak. It seems like there are going to be a lot of calculations first before you even get to power up the saw. Can you get a better driver for this so you can achieve some vomit-inducing bass? That would be pretty cool. The bass, not the vomit.

No kidding? Geez. I just ran across one by Cardas at Parts Connexion the other day. They're $62 per pair. Wow. Thanks for the tip. EDIT: Seems to me, this version of a cardas adapter might be kind of fun to build. Small, compact. Coolio.

I should probably change the title of this thread for posterity, and also because when I started the discussion, I was thinking of non-balanced cables with the ground being the shield being the...well, you know what I mean. I seem to have cause a bit of confusion. I always wonder why it follows me, then I realize I create it myself. Interesting. Thanks for all the replies. This place rocks as usual.

Okay. So I think since I am duplicating cables that already work, with all pins connected, and the shield connected at both ends...why would I do differently just because I am making a much longer version of it? I'll keep digging around, but much of what I've run across leans towards the Rane ideals. Cool enough. I was thinking of having the shield connected at just one end, and not pin 1, if anyone is keeping score! Thanks, all!

And that is precisely why I'd like to make it switchable! I'm going to do some sleuthing around here as I know Nate has mentioned it somewhere. If I head this route, I'll have to come up wiht some kind of switch that I can hang off the cable. That could either turn out really stupid looking, or tres professionalle!

I'm thinking shield. I envision some geeking-looking heat shrink with some kind of cool barrel-type appendage which houses the switch. No, I have no idea where I would find something like that.

Last year I built a pair of balanced cables to go between my Theta Pre and Classe amp. After they broke in, I was really surprised how good they sounded. I used DH Labs Pro Studio and a set of Neutrik connectors. The ground is connected at both ends. I've read that sometimes floating the ground is not a bad idea. I now realize that I could probably live with this cable for a while. Yeah, I like it! I also need to move my gear from it's current location (in between the speakers) to it's new home, in a rack along the wall and off of the damned floor. New rack is in the works. Anyway, I ordered a nice 50 foot section of DH Labs Pro Studio from Parts Connexion so that I can get the signal piped to the amp when my preamp and such are moved. The amp will stay between the speakers, 20 feet away. (Well, 20 feet of wire, anyway.) I was considering building an AudioQuest-style switch on the cable so that I could turn the grounding on or off depending on the equipment I use. All this by way of saying: am I just wasting time and energy on this? Should I just connect the grounds (since I know it sounds fine) and get back to the music? Or should I opt for a larger degree of tweakiness and figure out how to add a switch to the ground connection? Thanks!

Wow. So many colors in that ad. eyes/goggles/nothing.

Is that a cooked human liver between those buns?

So you made me google it then. I see. Here is the text @ vibram:

Yes, but if you drink too much with a birthday like this, you realize that everyone waits for the exact second your birthday is over, too... Happy Birthday, Reks. Some of the most powerful people in the world are Capricorns (us included!) bh:o

Their website is down now, but stay tuned. Some serious beautiful (and huge) amps. They sound about as amazing as they look.

Completely different tought. (and yes, it was good for me) So I was going to get into shpeakers a few years back. And it was a few years before the whole headphone thing which I really enjoy. I ended up talking with Jeff Joseph (speaker designer) and listened to one of his conversations with an audio engineer that he knew well. I was lost in the first 30 seconds.

WOW, the photo that has the screwdriver intact!!!!!! I never thought I'd see it again! They are beautiful. Wildly, unconventionally sexy. Like that foreign gal at work...with the tight skirt and the tossed hair. ooh la la. You can't stop looking at her, no? Maybe a quick caffe, lunch, maybe she'll talk with that outrageous accent. CANT STOP LOOKING.

aym-toosexyformy FLOATS toosexyformy FLOATS

Sweet. Thanks, y'all

Speaking of the Mogami, I see that Markertek has it by the foot. Is that where everyone gets it or is there a better place to buy? I just ordered some Neutrik XLRs from Mouser to fill out a smaller order and figured I'd start on a pair of balanced cables for the home rig.

Oh , yeah. The dealer is a cool guy. We had the last Seattle Head Fi meet there and he was happy to see someone come back to purchase some shtuff. (Resolution audio:video in Seattle).

It was weird to slide the balance control and expect the sound to go the same way. Confusing. And I wasn't even drinking. much. There was an odd glop of glue holding the driver in. I didn't want to cut it off for fear or ripping a new one in the driver itself. Still, it felt a bit funny on my earlobe. But I suppose someone will say, "that's normal". Oh well. Another pair on the way. And if this pair is wrong, backwards, wonky or weird, at least I'll know what to do: post here first!

oops. Damn. Hell yeah it would have been easier. I stared at them for a while before making the drive back, wondering if there could have been a way. Next time for sure!

btw, I totally don't get "yeah dude, like totally it was real!" doesn't make the "burn-in" so, so..ehm...totally...

Well, we'll have to get smeggy to wear a hat...so the good doc can focus on the problem at hand...

Really? wtf