Audiophile Silver HD25-1 Cable
After drooling over some of the cables from moon audio and cardas I decided to make a real audiophile cable to see how much difference they make.
I purchased some high end teflon covered silver cable and top of the range connectors and went to work….
First I took the cable and cut it into 4 pieces with two being a bit longer to keep the cable single sided entry ( the long bit will go over the headband to the left cup )
Then I created twisted pairs to stop any crosstalk
Then I twisted those pairs together wrapped the cable in nylon
Next – soldered on the connectors. I used a neutrik 3.5mm jack and cardas HPSC for the headphone end. To keep it all top notch I also used cardas quad solder and flux
And then for testing
Sound wise… After trying them with several high rez FLAC files I can confirm that it really does make a difference – you can hear extra detail in the recordings that you just don’t get with the steel one. I will make a few more practice ones and then probably start selling them – for the next one I will be plating the cable with strands of kevlar to make it stronger
Here are this months batch of Custom DJ Headphones to Drool over
Digital cammo Sennheiser HD25-1 mk ii DJ Headphones
These next ones have a custom OFC cable to improve the sound quality
Rush DJ Glow in the dark sony MDR-V700DJ
Glow in the dark Garth Hill Technics RP-DH1200
Plain white and UV green
These are so bright thet the camera could not capture the colours properly. Done with AutoAir Fluorescent paint and UV cable. They are actually ever so slightly radioactive but not enough to cook your head
Here are some of the chrome ones
Here are some nice Red and White Pioneer HDJ-500 with our latest Godzilla proof coating to protect them in Ibiza
Fancy custom made light up earcups for the sony MDR-V700 DJ – Ro make these we had to recast the earcups in clear plastic and embedded LEDs in them and they are powered by two batteries under the headband so it does not affect the sound quality
More Tide headphones for DJ Tide – This tile DH280s
Some of the first custom AIAIAI TMA-1 made – These have been given the ROTM treatment – as you can imagine they took ages to make but sold within hours of finishing them so they must have a bit of a following now
Tumbling skulls UV yellow Sennheiser hd25-1
Another pair of captain america ones
I really like these…. Iron Man / Stark industries sennheisr HD25-1 mk ii
More maroon and white RP-DJ 1200 Technics headphones
And finally……… some more UV HD25s
Sennheiser HD25-1 mk ii Super heroes
Here are a couple done using some new equipment and techniques. The people / faces are digitally printed using a custom built rig as a guide and then airbrushed over the top. I am now using a new compressor which gives me much more control so I can do better freehand stuff like these
Video Tutorial – Dismantling the Sennheise HD280
Here is another video of the dismantling procedure to the Sennheiser HD 280 DJ headphones. It is all pretty straight forward but watch out for the little ballbearing and spring that pop out when you remove the arm from the slider – If you look close it caught me out and I thought I had snapped something LOL.
The video is a bit pants because it was too sunny for my cheap cam
Video Tutorial – Dismantling the Technics RP-DH1200
Here is a quick video to show how to pull apart the technics RP-DH 1200 DJ headphones. They are not too hard but look out because the internal cables are glued the the casing and a bit tricky to chase out – be carefull!!
New Control talk cable with inline mic for pioneer hdj-500 / TMA-1 / anything that takes 3.5mm Jack
Just got in a batch of new cables. They are 3.5mm – 3.5mm jack cables with iphone / ipod / blackberry controls and in line mic to turn your DJ headphones into an ipod accessory / hands free kit. They are proper DJ grade cables reinforced with kevlar and woven outer sleeving
This weeks customs
These have the colour flip paint over a geometric pattern…
These are some HDJ-2000 done in rough gold leaf and forest green
These have the new pearl coating ooooh classy
These were done for a malibu promo – unfortunately I did not get any free rum ;( but they were fun to make
I’m loving these HD280 in pixie poop pink and a hello kitty design
I like these … Steam punky kogs…. industrial and cool at the same time
Hope you enjoyed these
J
Here are some more Custom DJ Headphones
These first ones have a chameleon paint job which changes from violet to green in different light
They were very tricky to get right as the paint would got go through my favorate airbrush because of the particle size but picked up a cheep one from ebay with a bigger nozzle and…. Hay Presto
Here are some done for Just Another Duo.
DJ Wood HD25-1…. Yellow is a really tricky colour to get right as you need to build it up in loads of layers to get it really yellow. They are not perfect but not bad
I love these ones… They were nearly impossible to do as the lines were so fine – – Basically I had to learn to pinstripe to finish them off but I love the look
Here are some more headphones with the ROTM design. As you can probably tell these took a long time and several markers to finish. I dont do may HDJ-1000 as they are a b!tch to work with due to all the strange angles but these were a labour of love.
Some more colour change HD25
24ct gold HDJ-2000 ….. What can I say. One way to make an expensive pair of headphones even more expensive is to cover them in gold
More Custom Headphones
Here are some custom Pioneer HDJ-2000 – I think they look really good in white
And Here are some more custom HD25-1
