[up late]

nope - wooden

 

[hotdogseller]

Nice!

 

[up late]

it's not fancy. comes in a black finish. i think it's wood. don't use mine tbh.

 

[Canadian411]

it's not fancy. comes in a black finish. i think it's wood. don't use mine tbh.

Sell it on ebay I am thinking of doing that since I don't use it.

 

[Canadian411]

NC4FXX-B (female, 4 pin xlr Neutrik)
NC4MXX-B (male, 4pin xlr Neutrik)

The th900's have all 4 wires inside, so apart from some simple soldering - you should be good to go. There are a couple of folks who have re-terminated the stock cable into 4 pin xlr with no issues. I included the female connector part # in case you want to make an xlr to 1/4" adapter.

If I end up going with the Oppo HA-1, I'll be doing just this.

 
Do you know how to map 4 wires to 1,2,3 and 4th (L+, L-, R+, R- respectively XLR pins ?

 

[the-kraken]

red right +, white left +, hopefully Fostex has clearly distinguished between l/r - (I can't clearly see here)

 

[the-kraken]

And here's that wooden stand

 

[Canadian411]

red right +, white left +, hopefully Fostex has clearly distinguished between l/r - (I can't clearly see here)

Perfect! I don't have to open the cup to find out which maps to what.

Thanks!

 

[plakat]

Perfect! I don't have to open the cup to find out which maps to what.

Thanks!

All audio gear I know uses the general rule of Red is Right. Depending on the structure of the cable the other channel normally also uses a color (such as white, blue, green etc.) while ground/negative would in many cases be bare wire (if the shield is used) or black, transparent, maybe white. Easy to spot though if its 2+2 shielded: one color is used in both pairs -- thats ground.

 

[BobJS]

Perfect! I don't have to open the cup to find out which maps to what.

Thanks!

 
Worst case, if you've got a cable that's open on one end and some alligator clips you could put a monophonic track into the left and right cups of the T1/(any headphone) and swap clips on one cup.  They're in phase if it sounds like it's coming from the middle of your head, and out of phase if it sounds like it's coming from two separate ears.  Of course, then you have to decide which are + and which are -.

 

[aksh]

i have just DIYed to Balanced. Red is Right and White/Yellow is Left. -R is black and coiled around the Red wire, though the two are not shielded separately. But the 2 sets of black - wires are easy to distinguish. The wires are ultra-thin, so need to handle extremely delicately while stripping the shielding before soldering. 

 

[germay0653]

   
Worst case, if you've got a cable that's open on one end and some alligator clips you could put a monophonic track into the left and right cups of the T1/(any headphone) and swap clips on one cup.  They're in phase if it sounds like it's coming from the middle of your head, and out of phase if it sounds like it's coming from two separate ears.  Of course, then you have to decide which are + and which are -.

The positive signal is already color coded for you and easy to identify.  It's the ground, black wires, that you're going to have to figure out which one goes to the left channel and which goes to the right channel.  That's the basic reason to go with a balanced connector, removing the crosstalk at the driver via the ground.

 

[Justin_Time]

All audio gear I know uses the general rule of Red is Right. Depending on the structure of the cable the other channel normally also uses a color (such as white, blue, green etc.) while ground/negative would in many cases be bare wire (if the shield is used) or black, transparent, maybe white. Easy to spot though if its 2+2 shielded: one color is used in both pairs -- thats ground.

I did run into a few gears from Europe where WHITE is right. BLACK was still ground--thank goodness! Since RED was not used, I was save from nasty surprises.

My modified TH900 were terminated with 4-pin XLR: absolutely no problem.

 

[plakat]

I did run into a few gears from Europe where WHITE is right. BLACK was still ground--thank goodness! Since RED was not used, I was save from nasty surprises.

My modified TH900 were terminated with 4-pin XLR: absolutely no problem.

At least they didn't repurpose red

 

[Canadian411]

Just to be safe, I am going to borrow my dad's Multimeter