WTB HD650 trrs cable

I'm really just looking for a stock hd650 cable reterminated in trrs for me go2a but 3rd party cables would also be fine.

Cheers

 

Hi
looking at the same thing , ZY cable is the cheapest option I found :
http://fr.shenzhenaudio.com/zy-hifi...-balance-for-geek-out-v2-bal-zy-109-1-5m.html

 

Has anyone actually tried anything from ZY? I'm tempted but want to make sure it's reliable first.

 

Why is that so expensive?
Couldn't one just make one for $10-$20?

 

You could if you could solder a trrs plug. But it so happens they are a major PITA to solder.

 

Hmm, OK, I've done trs fine, but I could imagine another pin making things very difficult.

 

3.5mm ones though? There's very little chance I could pull that off, my hands are not steady enough. If you have any tips I'd appreciate it.

 

Yeah, ive done it a few times. Just use thin, good solder, and a small tipped iron.

I could probably make you a cable at cost of wire and connectors and shipping, if the sennhesier connectors are avalible anywhere
EDIT: or just take the stock cable and put new connector on end

 

Most of the cheap TRRS connectors have crap plastic inside that melts very easily and you get internal connections between channels. The nicer ones are all expensive and cost almost $20 to get shipped to you. If you are building from scratch and not just reterminating, then you have to add in another $20 easily for Senn connectors and wire. Considering ZY cables is a business that needs to make money, their prices are pretty darn reasonable.

 

In real terms that's not expensive at all.

It might seem so, compared to building your own, but it's actually pretty reasonable in the grand scheme of "What things sold commercially have to cost if you want to stay in business".

Assuming you're just buying the parts to make one such cable, you're around $9 for decent (by which I mean, say, "AcroLink" not any of the nicer stuff, like Cardas which goes up rapidly or Furutech which would cost you the same as the entire cable) HD6xx connectors , $11 for that particular TRRS connector, $3 for the paracord and somewhere around $2.50 for the wire (assuming something cheap-but-sensible, like star-quad microphone cable). Let's put that at $25 total. That probably won't be a big enough order to get you into free-shipping anywhere, and you probably can't get those components from a single vendor, but let's assume you can and that they offer flat-rate USPS shipping, which would run you about $3.95 here.

That's $29 in parts/shipping.

And that's with no accounting for assembly time/overhead or other consumables/tooling (you might have them already, but any business has to account for those costs in their product pricing).

In order to be sustainable you generally (there are exceptions) factor a 3x multiplier in the parts BoM to get to your retail price. More if you're using a distributor. So it's about where it should be.

Now, yes, you could use different parts and perhaps drop the cost a bit, and then and wangle that down a bit further if you're willing to wait a few weeks and buy from China via eBay. But you're just as likely, if building one cable, to wind up paying multiple shipping charges and driving the cost up as well.

This is the truth!

If I were selling headphone cables for a living, the requirement either for a 3.5mm (or even worse, 2.5mm), TRRS jack would incur at least a $25 up-charge on the cable simply because they're such a PITA to deal with, particularly as the nicer TRRS connectors all seem to go with the "tiered barrel" rather than "solder tags" model, which makes it even worse.

 

Would something like this work for you?