Building silver interoconnects

Great article! So Bottlehead know what they're doing after all It sounds like the built-in flexibility of the Belden 1305A would also make it work well as a headphone cable.

For the record I contemplated using good cat 5/6 cables. I mentioned them in #12 above, but I'm not into the colors. Silly I know, but at the wire length I needed, the total cost was dominated by the Switchcraft connectors.

 

Hah, we've had little cat5 to multiple XLR breakout boxes kicking about at work for years- just bashed together in the workshop, for when we needed to get balanced audio from apps rooms to offices- super-cheap to make and very effective. Network cable as easy audio hack certainly gets my vote.

 

@Thad E Ginathom I hope this makes you proud

These were built from Belden Ethernet wire. That wire is slightly difficult to work with because every pair is fused together, I'm assuming for a perfect twist rate.

The end result is pretty sweet