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🔷 Anyone here who has compared different headphone-adapters for best soundquality.?

The adapter for teleconnectors,.from 6.3 mm to 3.5 mm.
Furutech has an adapter in Rhodium,.has anyone here tried it.

▪️AND,.how to upload photos,.it's usually easy to upload photos,but here I do not understand how to do.

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I haven't compared them, but am also interested in this for my Grados. But my experience of Furutech isn't too good, they tend to sound very detailed and "hifi", but leave the tune lying in a ditch...
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🔷 Tendabeery...
I agree with you about Furutech.
It will be a bit "cleaner and clearer",.but sterile and without musical feeling.

I have tested Furutech's various connectors for powercables,.and there I prefer Oyaides which I have also tested.

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I still think I should test Furutech's "best" adapter in rhodium.
It only costs 44 € so it is not big money.
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You may want to try the Beyerdynamic adapter for € 6,10 against it.
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🔷 Tendabeery...

I do not know,.when we tested Furutech's and Oyaide's contacts for powercables,we preferred all of them in rhodium.

The ones in gold became a little too soft and embedded if you understand what I mean.

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🔷 I have searched a bit online,.but can not find any "high quality" adapters.

Does anyone here know if there is any high quality adapter to try.
The only one I found is the one in the picture above from Furutech.

▪️This below from Furutech,.about the adapter in the picture above.
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Furutech CF63-D is an adapter for teleconnectors,.from 6.3 mm to 3.5 mm.

The conductors in CF63-S are plated with rhodium,.and consist of α (Alpha) phosphor bronze and copper alloy.
The conductors are insulated by POM,.and the housing is made of rhodium-plated copper alloy, cushioned with carbon fiber.
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Maybe if you contact headphone manufacturers,.they usually send good adapters with their high-end headphones.
• Focal
• Grado
• Meze
..etc etc

Maybe you can buy from there,.and test the one that works best against your headphone system.

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Any recommendations for Grados? The thing is ive a few lying around and only one seems to actually fit. Weird.
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This one is actually advertised as a Grado adapter, but I haven't seen it before. The price is very good at € 10,-
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Excellent Tendaberry, many thanks!
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Tendaberry wrote: 2021-12-02 11:18 This one is actually advertised as a Grado adapter, but I haven't seen it before...
Looks right - looks like the one that came with my SRs
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Even better I found a grado extension lead while looking at Tenaberrys heads up. It is infuriating that the lead on the 125e is so short and I have had to arrange my seating accordingly. Now......freedom!!!
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Ah, but now it gets interesting. Grado makes two different extension leads: a 4 conductor 15 foot one and a more expensive 12 conductor 12 foot one. Since "Grado guarantees no degradation of sonic quality with Grado headphones while using their extension cable." one has to wonder why anybody would spend more money for the shorter one? Not to mention why Grado would make it?

But the 1/8' adapter in the link does look like the one Grado includes with the headphones. I didn't mention it earlier as Grado doesn't show it separately available on the dealer price list. But obviously they will sell it if a dealer asks them
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And the good news is that the Grado extension cable is really good :-) Edit after reading Tom's posting: I don't know which one I've heard of the 2, but it cost around € 49,-
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Yes thats the same price and tbh its all im willing to spend after extra outlay for the foam pads. Which indeed are superb.
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Tendaberry wrote: 2021-12-02 18:02 And the good news is that the Grado extension cable is really good :-) Edit after reading Tom's posting: I don't know which one I've heard of the 2, but it cost around € 49,-
That must be the original as it runs $40 over here as opposed to the $65 better than perfect version.
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🔷 You who wrote last now in the thread,.are talking about a gold-plated adapter.

I have not compared different adapters for headphones,.but instead different connectors for powercables.
And there I prefer contacts in rhodium,.which I also wrote earlier.

If we now are going to "jump a little" on the subject ....
Does anyone here have tested different connectors for their powercables.?
And if so,.which ones did you prefer? Gold Plated or Rhodium?
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Peder wrote: 2021-12-03 01:29 Does anyone here have tested different connectors for their powercables.? And if so,.which ones did you prefer? Gold Plated or Rhodium?
Neither, just the standard Lejonklou or Linn power cables. And I'm fairly convinced, that if you fit a Furutach Rhodium connector to either of those cables, it will be worse than before.
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Tendabeery..Hi...
One should never assume anything within this interest.
Without try,.test and compare is what counts.

Had the privilege of buying some cable without connectors from Swedish Jorma Design.
It was the cable model Jorma Duality,.a really good cable.

I terminated it with "right" torque,.this of course listened to,and with instructions from Jorma Design

We terminated Oyaide's two best contacts on two similar Jorma Design Duality cables.
The Oyaide contacts were ...
• M1 / ​​F1 ,.Oyaide's best.
• P / C 004 ,.Oyaide's second best.

Both cables were exactly 1.5m,.the best length for soundquality on Duality according to Jorma Design.
They were also "burn-in" exactly 300 hours before we listened and compared.

The cables were first connected in a pre-amp in a Linn-system.
There,.the Duality-cable with the Oyaide P / C004 connectors was the best.
All in all,.with that cable it was an incredible musical improvement in that Linn-system.

Then we tested both the above mentioned Duality-cables in a Naim-system.
They were connected in a Nap 250 power-amp.
There,.the Duality-cable with Oyaide's best connectors M1 / ​​F1 was the best.

The difference for the better in musical soundquality was so great that we almost lost our chin.

And we who did this are really ...
Attention To Detail,.and have had this Linn / Naim / Lejonklou interest all our lives,.now we are 60+.
AND,.we know how to test and compare,and are very good at the Tune-Dem method.

SO,.Dare Try is our message,and do not think that just because it says Linn or Naim on the product it is the best.

/Peder :-)
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Tendaberry wrote: 2021-12-03 12:02
Peder wrote: 2021-12-03 01:29 Does anyone here have tested different connectors for their powercables.? And if so,.which ones did you prefer? Gold Plated or Rhodium?
Neither, just the standard Lejonklou or Linn power cables. And I'm fairly convinced, that if you fit a Furutach Rhodium connector to either of those cables, it will be worse than before.
Power cables as supplied by Fredrik here too... Not encouraged to try anything else since Thomas found (Linn &) Lejonklou to be better, and Fredrik himself said this:
lejonklou wrote: 2021-04-20 02:36 ... Silver and rhodium are not my favourite platings.
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Tendabeery...

OK,.I have respect for that,but prefer not to put my head in the sand ;-).

We are a group that has tested and listened to most things on the market.
Designers even from England sent us prototype-designs for evaluation.
We have tested all the "better" powercable connectors on the market,and have a very good feeling / knowledge..this in which combinations who work together.

As well as powercables from Linn / Lejonklou up to the most expensive from different manufacturers.
Then we talk about prices around € 9,670.
And as I wrote in previous posts,.in the Linn and Naim-systems we tried the above mentioned powercables..yes there we dropped our chin.

AND,.I have had,among other things, Linn's large system for over 3 decades,and bought my first LP12 in 1983.
But I leave this as I feel a hint of disinterest ...
Concludes by saying that,.you would be surprised if you could listen to what I am talking about above.

For everything is about creating synergy between different materials and products.
And this cable,.Jorma Duality is normally only sold as a complete Jorma Duality powercable.
So it is completely unique that we / our group had the opportunity to carry out this test.

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🔷 Okay,.back to headphone-adapters...

Now I have taken the time to start comparing adapters (see picture further up in the thread).

I have 3 different gold-plated adapters,.not any Furutech yet.
One is the one that came with my Bower & Wilkins P9 headphones at the time of purchase.
The other two are the ones that came with the two different Asus head-amp, pre-amp, dac's that I have.

I have only done a first listening,.but can say so much that everyone contributes in different ways to the sound quality.

A little exciting evening fun to look forward to...
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Good man! Let us know how you get on (preferably with clips 😀).
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