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Furutech FP-704 & Silver Coated Headphones Cable

The cables that comes from the headphones you bought are mostly doing fine to transfer the audio signal from source to the drivers. More over, the higher prices headphones will give you the good quality cables option in their package. They are okay and preferable for ease when using them.

Then for anyone who want improve the sound quality from the beloved headphones for sure will aim to upgrade the cables first. This is the most easy and affordable way to upgrade.

But is it will improved the sound quality?

Well, no need debating about this issue. In this post, I will try the new DIY headphone cable.

In this test, I am using Sennheiser HD600 headphone with it's original cables. The cable is very flexible and come with 3 meter length.

Then the upgraded cables is a DIY cable contain of 4 strains 22 AWG copper wire with silver coated cable. The cable jacket is made from Teflon and they are braided together.

The headphones connector plug is using high quality Acrolink socket. Then the 6.3 mm jack is using Furutech FP-704.


This Furutech FP-704 build quality is just like a tank. Very solid and easy to work on for larger cables. This connector is very heavy and will not suitable for portable use.



This is how I test on how much difference for the new upgraded cables compare to the bundling headphone cables.

I am using multi-meter/ ohm meter with milli-ohm range.

This meter will measure the resistance for less than 1 ohm. Any small resistance appear during this signal transfer will impact so much on the sound quality. The higher the number, the larger resistance from the source to the headphone.


The bundling cable from Sennheiser HD600 is measure 0,8 ohm per channel.

If calculate more detail, my internal multi-meter resistance is about 0,2 ohm, so we got the true resistance for the cable is 0,5 ohm.


Compares to the DIY upgraded cables and with the same calculation method above, we got the true resistance for single channel is 0,3 ohm, then minus the internal multi-meter resistance is become only 0,1 ohm.

After all, how is the sound quality difference between them?

I can say that the result when using this upgraded cable is noticeably better on sound transparency. The sound more open with this new cable.

So that is the very simple way to make the sound upgrade by replace the cable only. It is works for me and it should be works for you as well.

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