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Guide to the Balanced AKG K701 recabling - Page 4

post #46 of 53
4/4/10 at 6:25am
Mine were wired differently. (black = right-, white = left-). You have to open the left cup to check the wiring. In my case, the black one connects to the headband, and comes out as white in the right cup. Only opening the right cup will fool you, just as I was fooled
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post #47 of 53
4/5/10 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by Junliang View Post
And when i open the cups of the k701(that metallic grills), it was different..
and I cant detach the white piece in order to give me space to solder..
You need to undo the screws:




You can pull off the small white part quite easily as it only has very slight tabs on each side, and the top "hands" pop off of the grey part of the headband very easily. I basically gently prised it up from the bottom and removed the "hands" last.






I'm not going to disassemble it all again, so I'll just say that I undid another screw:




did some various desoldering and cutting of wires, and ended up with this:




I really would have thought I'd have posted in this thread before, since I followed it (and the AKG exploded diagram/service manual) for disassembly... hope I'm not breaking any rules with more thumbnailed pics:




Yes, it's not balanced (starquad terminated with TRS), but it shows that balanced rewiring is possible with the "different" K701 earcup assembly
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post #48 of 53
4/11/10 at 1:55am
Wow !
Nice post man, and thanks for the pm

Thank you very much !

*If only there is some sort of +rep or thank button =/*

thank you !!
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post #49 of 53
4/15/10 at 12:45am
Man, I just cant seem to pry open the white part !
the left side of my left cup open slightly, but its tedious to open the entire cup >.<


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Originally Posted by hardnrg View Post
You can pull off the small white part quite easily as it only has very slight tabs on each side, and the top "hands" pop off of the grey part of the headband very easily. I basically gently prised it up from the bottom and removed the "hands" last.
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post #50 of 53
4/2/11 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by Junliang View Post

Man, I just cant seem to pry open the white part !
the left side of my left cup open slightly, but its tedious to open the entire cup >.<


Quote:
Originally Posted by hardnrgView Post
You can pull off the small white part quite easily as it only has very slight tabs on each side, and the top "hands" pop off of the grey part of the headband very easily. I basically gently prised it up from the bottom and removed the "hands" last.



Any luck?
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post #51 of 53
4/10/11 at 7:58pm

Search for his user name and post positive feedback. k701smile.gif
EDIT: Oops, I just noticed that his last post was 4-11-10, not 4-11-11. redface.gif

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Originally Posted by Junliang View Post

Wow !
Nice post man, and thanks for the pm

Thank you very much !

*If only there is some sort of +rep or thank button =/*

thank you !!


 


Edited by jeffreyfranz - 4/10/11 at 8:00pm
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post #52 of 53
4/11/11 at 4:46pm

any online shop recable this to balanced 4 pin xlr ???

 

prefer inside europe instead of the USA

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post #53 of 53
4/11/11 at 6:54pm

Very informative might try these one. props!

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