r/DIYAudioCables

This was my first dual-mono headphone cable build, made about a year ago.

The main reason I built it was to use my headphones with the Cayin iHA-6, which has dual 3-pin XLR balanced headphone outputs.

For this build, I used a hand-braided copper wire layout and kept the design fairly simple since it was one of my early DIY cable projects.

The goal was mainly to learn the full process myself: preparing the conductors, braiding the cable, checking the channel/polarity layout, soldering the connectors, testing continuity, and making sure the final cable was usable and safe before connecting it to the amp.

Looking back, it was not a perfect build. I would improve the strain relief, finishing, and overall presentation today.

But it worked correctly, measured properly, and gave me the confidence to continue building more advanced headphone cables later.

built some XLR cables to match my speaker cables

Speaker cables :

Canare 4s11 cable

Viborg Solid Copper banana plugs

Alex Tech .5" shielding

XLR cables :

Mogami W2534 NEGLEX cable

Nuetrik XLR NC3 connectors

Alex Tech .25" shielding

What are your thoughts on this cables? They are old soviet HF cables, but I managed to get pretty solid sound with them.
Unfortunately I haven’t done any measurements, so my experience is quite subjective.
Any thoughts??