Soldato
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You make me roar
***AKG Q701 Official Owners Thread***
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You make me roar
Soldato
Anybodies arrived yet?
Associate
not yet, most likely going through UK custom
Soldato
With the Q701 arrival imminent I thought I had best get to work.
Green and blue any one!
Vandamme mini starquad XKE cable silver plated OFC, stripped, twisted and finished with paracord. 1.5 meter length.
The paracord finishes cable off nicely.
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Green and blue any one!
Vandamme mini starquad XKE cable silver plated OFC, stripped, twisted and finished with paracord. 1.5 meter length.
The paracord finishes cable off nicely.
Soldato
I'm looking to get a 1.5m cable but would prefer to have a 3,5mm with screw on 6.3mm adaptor as I use both the Aune T1 and the STX (via an extension).
Man of Honour
Is the cable fairly heavy or light in weight?
Soldato
Total weight including connectors? 46 grams, remembering this has a hefty 1/4" jack on it though. Rean/neutrik connectors are quite heavy duty, they do some lovely silver nickel/gold plated ones too. The one I made for my X1's with the outer sheeth still in place. I'm thinking of dismantling this though and finding something to tidy up the opening on the connectors as they accommodate quite large cables and even this at 4.85mm looks a little lost in it. and I would like to finish both with some heatshrink over the cable/connector.
Cable itself? Not heavy at all, the cores are quite thin and flexible, you loose a little flex twisting them and braiding them tight but this is for desk use so the little I do loose makes no impact. even with the outer sheeth on it surprised me how flexible it was for a 5mm cable.
Cable itself? Not heavy at all, the cores are quite thin and flexible, you loose a little flex twisting them and braiding them tight but this is for desk use so the little I do loose makes no impact. even with the outer sheeth on it surprised me how flexible it was for a 5mm cable.
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Man of Honour
That actually sounds quite decent. Any link to that particular one? 
Soldato
How much did the cable cost you in total to make?
Soldato
The Mini XLR to 1/4" cost £6 for materials and the 3.5MM to 1/4" about 40p less.
postage came to about £5.50 for the lot. I did order enough to make 3 cables but decided on 1.5m instead of 1. so the 3m of cable did just 2, cable is only £1.60p a meter though.
Updated that post with he picture, stupid mobile photobucket takes an age at times!
postage came to about £5.50 for the lot. I did order enough to make 3 cables but decided on 1.5m instead of 1. so the 3m of cable did just 2, cable is only £1.60p a meter though.
That actually sounds quite decent. Any link to that particular one?
Updated that post with he picture, stupid mobile photobucket takes an age at times!
Man of Honour
Hmm looking good!
I think if I do really like the 701 then what I will likely end up doing is just cutting the 20m cable it comes with to around 1.7m and fitting one of those mini XLR plugs on. Saves having to deal with sorting out the jack end then too I guess. Or do it vice versa if the 3.5mm end is easier to manage which I think it will be. Just need some good quality solder to do it with I guess!
I think if I do really like the 701 then what I will likely end up doing is just cutting the 20m cable it comes with to around 1.7m and fitting one of those mini XLR plugs on. Saves having to deal with sorting out the jack end then too I guess. Or do it vice versa if the 3.5mm end is easier to manage which I think it will be. Just need some good quality solder to do it with I guess!
Soldato
The jack will be easier, slightly, either is really not a challenge though. I used 4% silver solder but only because I had a small amount sitting around from another project I had a few years ago. Decent quality solder would do the job just fine.
Man of Honour
Ah excellent. This seems to look like it will do just fine.
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Might as well upgrade the soldering iron too, Gascat 60 looks the business
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Might as well upgrade the soldering iron too, Gascat 60 looks the business
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Soldato
Get some decent flux, silver solder is a sod to flow, my 4% is a pain, that 4.7% i would hazard a guess at being a nightmare
I'm probably telling you how to suck eggs here but it's worth mentioning just in case someone else decides to try and doesn't realise, don't want someone melting the mini xlr trying to flow the stuff.
I'm probably telling you how to suck eggs here but it's worth mentioning just in case someone else decides to try and doesn't realise, don't want someone melting the mini xlr trying to flow the stuff.
Man of Honour
Don't know how much I have left but it was just generic stuff, I suppose some decent flux is in order too then 
Associate
any one got their Q701 from Massdrop yet or card from Royal Mail
Man of Honour
Nothing today. Maybe tomorrow... Hopefully tomorrow 
Soldato
Just as an aside, if anyone here dislikes the Q701, I'll take it off your hands 
inb4 ban...
inb4 ban...
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Just as an aside, if anyone here dislikes the Q701, I'll take it off your hands
inb4 ban...
I think someone said they would get rid of theirs unopened if mrk gave them a bad review.
So you know what to do now mrk
Caporegime
What connector is needed for the headphone end of the cable?