Any recommendations for custom headphone cable shops located in European Union? Import taxes are killing me man.
There are so many places with google “custom headphone cables europe”.
More important is what kinda of cable are you looking.
What plug, what end, colors or materials of cable and quality of cable.
Just dont click those china links for custom cable.
I imported a cable from US and it was around Customs fees ~10e and overall Taxes 90e to total 100e. For a quality + long cable 12ft / 3.6m its not the range of “killing”.
It depends where you live, for me it’s 25% value added tax + ~10eur in fees.
I’m looking for custom 6.5mm to 4.4mm 2m long cable and custom 4.4mm cables without split (dual cables coming out of 4.4 connector) for 3 different headphones.
Sweden? 
not funny 
im in sweden as well, but with the new EU rules, you can actually use aliexpress without being forced to pay the fee to postscam. Because aliexpress charges vat directly when you order now.
Which is why you should take a look at XINHS on aliexpress, they are an OEM and you can ask them to make you a cable like that.
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Behold my necromancy skills and witness me reviving this thread!
So, the thing is, I’ve been meaning to put my EL-8 back into rotation for a while now. It might be a headphone that has its issues, I still like it.
Audeze still sells the pads and for the headband I used a generic cover from Geekria, because I don’t see another option atm.
But then the cable… The stock cable is awful and it has the dumbest proprietary connectors in the universe. I really wanted 4.4 cable now, only … I’m in the EU and I don’t want to be scammed by Moon Audio again. Even finding the connectors alone is a pain the ass.
Enter Matt from Forza Audioworks.
https://forzaaudioworks.com/en/
I heard some good things about him in the past, so I decided to contact him and see if he had those connectors and was willing to make a cable for me. If needed I was willing to send him my stock cable and use those connectors. But I was lucky! Matt had one pair of connectors gathering dust. After a bit of back and forth to specify the order (Matt responds in abt 1-2 days to e-mails), I got my cable in a little under a weeks time.
I’m a happy camper!
I think that this is the first time where I feel that spending a bit more than usual on a cable (I don’t normally spend more than €100 on a cable) has actually gotten me a cable that seems worth the money. It’s supple, it coils nice, it’s not microphonic, the braid is very consistent and stiff, the hardware is nice. And most importantly, it feels like it will last a long time.
Fyi, I don’t subscribe to cable compositions altering the sound, so I won’t be able to provide an answer to those questions.
All in all, Matt has been great to work with and the cable looks and feels great.
So if you’re in the EU and don’t want to deal with Alie-express or customs fees from US based companies, I would recommend checking out Forza Audioworks.
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