Making my own aes/ebu cable
As far as I understand, the AES/EBU on the deq2496 and dcx2496 uses the XLR connector type.
What type of cable do i need? the 110ohm shielded?
would something like this work?
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=100-244
what about soldering the connections?
is it the same as the balanced xlr?
TIA
As far as I understand, the AES/EBU on the deq2496 and dcx2496 uses the XLR connector type.
What type of cable do i need? the 110ohm shielded?
would something like this work?
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=100-244
what about soldering the connections?
is it the same as the balanced xlr?
TIA
It's connected in exactly the same way as a normal XLR. Yes, you need 110 Ohm. It's often coloured purple to distinguish it from analogue audio leads.
Thanks for the quick reply,
None of the cables on the partsexpress website mention 110ohm, should i look elsewhere?
None of the cables on the partsexpress website mention 110ohm, should i look elsewhere?
Try a professional audio vendor. Trouble is, they will want to sell you a reel of cable. They will probably sell ready-made patch cords, though.
thank you for ur suggestions,
i went ahead and ordered from markertek.com
very decent prices for my cabling needs.
i went ahead and ordered from markertek.com
very decent prices for my cabling needs.
Source for Cables of all types
It's been a few years since I dealt with them, but I always had great cables from Clark Wire & Cable in the Chicago area. http://www.clarkwire.com/index.htm
When I was a chief engineer, I ordered quite a bit of cable from them. Very high quality stuff, and reasonable prices. If you called them, they often had odds and ends that you could get to play with. And, they have some wild combo cables.
One thing I really liked about most of their cables was that they were flexible in cold weather. Back in the 90's they were about the only people who had that.
It's been a few years since I dealt with them, but I always had great cables from Clark Wire & Cable in the Chicago area. http://www.clarkwire.com/index.htm
When I was a chief engineer, I ordered quite a bit of cable from them. Very high quality stuff, and reasonable prices. If you called them, they often had odds and ends that you could get to play with. And, they have some wild combo cables.
One thing I really liked about most of their cables was that they were flexible in cold weather. Back in the 90's they were about the only people who had that.
Got my wires and connectors from markertek.com today, very nice!
one question, I don't need the pin 1 (ground) for aes/ebu right?
one question, I don't need the pin 1 (ground) for aes/ebu right?
I also want to make a DIY AES/EBU cable. I have some Neutrik nickel plated XLR's and Belden 1800F cable (110 Ohm). The finished cable will be 3 feet long only. Are these materials good enough or will I get much better results if I use expensive DH Labs Silver Sonic XLR's and DH Labs Silver Sonic D-110 cable? Is there really going to be a big difference or none at all for this short length of cable?
I honestly hope the difference, if any, is negligible, as I just want to get this done as soon as I can. 😉
I honestly hope the difference, if any, is negligible, as I just want to get this done as soon as I can. 😉
No difference at all for almost any length of cable. Silver has a few percent better conductivity than copper, so that means that the maximum length of cable before the signal gets too weak for reliable data slicing will be a few percent longer if you use silver. This is in the hundreds of feet range.
At 3 feet you could probably get away with almost any cable of any type.
At 3 feet you could probably get away with almost any cable of any type.
Your 'materials at hand' DIY cable will work perfectly fine, go for it.
If you want to experiment, the teflon insulation of the SilverSonic cable is a good thing and is affordable.
Use XLR connectors of same material type as the gear you are connecting, even if this means different ends and use lead free solder.
Dan.
Let's try to keep this both science based and practical.
That materials you have will works just fine. And as was mentioned, at 3 feet even a regular mic cable is going to work just fine.
Regularly just plug my X32 into a DCX via a 30M generic multicore with no ill effects, on a short run then I can't see any issues with just using regular mic cable as have done many times, dmx cable maybe another option as is 120 Ohm, and cat5 100 Ohm.
Hi,I'm actualy use VdH D102 mk III ,with Neutrik balanced connectors and works very well,between my Arc CD1 as transport and M2tech Young Dac.
I bought two of these some time ago as interconects XLR cables,but then try one as digital and works fine,much better than coax .
Ciao Paolo
I bought two of these some time ago as interconects XLR cables,but then try one as digital and works fine,much better than coax .
Ciao Paolo
In cinema installations we actually use CAT 6 ethernet cable over some fairly long distances for AES-EBU,and it has always worked fine.
Mark
Mark
For AES/EBU almost any twisted pair will work better than coax, for the simple reason that AES/EBU is balanced. For SPDIF almost any coax will work better than twisted pair. Horses for courses.
Funny. I have a couple of Neutrik AES to coax inline transformers that I use for getting SPDIF coax into AES inputs. Somewhere I read that they were handy because coax is so much better for long cable runs than twisted pair. 
Still haven't figure that one out.
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