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Boasting the exceptional quality Van Damme is known for, the Blue Series is the analog pre-jacketed cable of choice for the professional user: extremely flexible, sonically transparent, and intelligently designed with both numbered and color-coded pairs. These headphone cables more than satisfy the rigorous demands of studio engineers, installers, and manufacturers, and have been used extensively in studios everywhere Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downFrostyP
502
Jan 19, 2019
GoomsThey're not suckers if they know what they're buying. I'm someone who knows full well that cables are insignificant to sound but if a cable is well made (as in won't wear out easily) I'll gladly fork over cash to have someone do the labor of making a cable for me.
Edit: so maybe they are if the build quality is as bad as other commenters are saying
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Fastnet
15
Jan 17, 2019
CAREFUL!!!! THIS IS A FRAUD...
Last time I bought this cable for my Sennheiser HD600. Worse quality cable I ever seen. The soldering were broken within a week. Anyway the connectors they actually used were different from the ones on the pictures. They wanted to keep the connectors in place by putting a heat-shrink on them (LOL). Horrible quality. Actually useless because mostly noise comes from my cones. Obviously I would be able to fix it if I buy some new connectors and do the soldering myself but why should I do that with an expensive cable? If I would build this from scratch then it would cost $20-30 max, anyway...
I complained at Massdrop customer service. They refused my complaints because "there is no warranty on this product". (???) I don't even understand how can they sell anything without warranty. On the other hand warranty is covering unintentional problems arising randomly. But in my case they shipped a different product than I ordered. With no chance for proper functionality. That is not labelled with the term of warranty but rather fraud.
I also asked Massdrop to tell me the name of the producer of the cable. They refused to answer. They are saying that their contract disallowing them to tell the manufacturer's name. So the manufacturer knows the quality of the product and don't want to have a negative reputation.
Buy it only if you have too much money and you want some adventures.
On the more technical and less heated side... The cable is very heavy. It is inconvenient to wear. And your high-impedance headphone does not really require a very special cable. Braided, shielded, ultra low impedance cables are nice to have but not really affecting the sound quality. So such balanced cables are rather an optical tuning than anything else. Balanced cables (three-pole ones) have real advantages between pre-amps and power amplifiers. But four-pole headphone cables don't have noise cancelling effect at all. Invest this money to a bit better headphone or amplifier - much better off.
Last time I bought this cable for my Sennheiser HD600. Worse quality cable I ever seen. The soldering were broken within a week. Anyway the connectors they actually used were different from the ones on the pictures. They wanted to keep the connectors in place by putting a heat-shrink on them (LOL). Horrible quality. Actually useless because mostly noise comes from my cones. Obviously I would be able to fix it if I buy some new connectors and do the soldering myself but why should I do that with an expensive cable? If I would build this from scratch then it would cost $20-30 max, anyway...
I complained at Massdrop customer service. They refused my complaints because "there is no warranty on this product". (???) I don't even understand how can they sell anything without warranty. On the other hand warranty is covering unintentional problems arising randomly. But in my case they shipped a different product than I ordered. With no chance for proper functionality. That is not labelled with the term of warranty but rather fraud.
I also asked Massdrop to tell me the name of the producer of the cable. They refused to answer. They are saying that their contract disallowing them to tell the manufacturer's name. So the manufacturer knows the quality of the product and don't want to have a negative reputation.
Buy it only if you have too much money and you want some adventures.
On the more technical and less heated side... The cable is very heavy. It is inconvenient to wear. And your high-impedance headphone does not really require a very special cable. Braided, shielded, ultra low impedance cables are nice to have but not really affecting the sound quality. So such balanced cables are rather an optical tuning than anything else. Balanced cables (three-pole ones) have real advantages between pre-amps and power amplifiers. But four-pole headphone cables don't have noise cancelling effect at all. Invest this money to a bit better headphone or amplifier - much better off.
Uzuzu
1431
Jan 17, 2019
Unstripped, unbraided quad-core cable sautered to a nickel-plated Neutrik xlr.... not even sleeved, so with 4 wires, shielding and a rubber coat it's gonna be mega heavy.
y split heatshrink... 90 dollars lmao
post split not braided, at least it's sleeved
hd650 connectors chinese
Just so you know guys, taking a 4 core cable and making this is legitimately 20 minutes of work or less, with under 12 dollars of material per cable excluding the hd800 one (because those connectors cost a bit).
You're paying for lazy and ugly work. For 90 dollars each of these cables and cores should be separately sleeved and braided, it's going to be massively heavy and it's going to be microphonic.
Not to mention.... the nickel Neutrik connectors cost less than the black, gold ones that you actually want on there, more signs of cost-cutting though i'm sure they'll say it's for ascetic.
And actual Darwin GG to whomever's wallet suffers this purchase
LIBY555
192
Jan 16, 2019
PET sleeve for the split OMG!!
THE MICROPHONICS!!!!!! Looks so heavy too..
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sadiq
255
Jan 16, 2019
These look attractive enough but for $90-180 I'd expect a more sophisticated Y-split than ordinary heatshrink which is what a beginner DIY-er would do.
RayF
22218
Jan 16, 2019
Word to the wise: anyone considering this drop should absolutely, positively, read all of the comments below and click on every external LINK provided, before punching that BUY button.
Also worth noting the curious absence of a Review Tab on this drop--coincidence?
HexCowboy
117
Jan 16, 2019
Thank you MD community for the excellent advice here. I’ll return the favor with more reviews in the future. Skipping this one. Massdrop absolutely should own vendor quality given the lack of warranty/replacement options that say Amazon provides, which make spending a bit more on Amazon better in the long run after a few big losses here. Luckily I haven’t had any expensive fails...just a way too-tiny belt, and some really shitty pairs of earbuds.
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tjhobbs
17
Jan 16, 2019
Anyone considering these - you should know that Van Damme Blue is *heavy*. I made a cable for my HE400is with it and while it performs great, you can feel the weight of the cable tugging on you when you have the cans on your head. Just something to bear in mind. 
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