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Offline sainbablo

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Re: Headphone cables - Why so thin?
« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2016, 05:20:03 pm »
Thin wires,cracking easily, plastic coating peeling off, and with slight tug ear piece remains in ear while wire dangles out,  all part of an elegant profit making ploy. You cant beat it  |O
 

Offline Assafl

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Re: Headphone cables - Why so thin?
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2016, 11:16:30 am »
Other than stated above a few notes:
1. For in ear headphones, thinner wire means less noise picked up by the wire (e.g. when it snags a bit). Older models (early 2000 when Knowles were just exploring this market - prior to it exploding) were like pistons in your ear sounded like Sound Level calibrators when tugged upon.

2. Better thin wires use other conductors like Tinsel which are stronger than copper (but hell to solder so usually crimped). They are very strong - like piano wire.

3. There is probably a sweet spot between cable weight and headphone weight. My Audeze have very heavy cables - but since the headphones are so goddamn heavy - it matters little. My in ear Etymotics (few grams headphones) have thin and lightweight cables. Both last at least 5 years between cable replacement... 
 


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