So, I disassembled my DX1000s and started swapping them over to the new D2000 frame that I got. Then I hit a brick wall...
Things were looking so good on the interwebs and I was so ready for a drop-in swap, but that's not how this is going and now I've got
a lot of work ahead of me.
Have a look at the
album I put together for it and all the photo descriptions.
Problems:
1. The DX1000 wood cups currently have nothing to mount to on the D2000 headband centre frame.
2. There is a large, 5-6mm all the way around, gap around the driver chamber of the DX1000 wood cup and the centre frame of the D2000.
3. The plastic, angled earpad frame of the DX1000 has nothing to mount to on the D2000 headband centre frame.
4. The DX1000 earpad frame sits 6-7mm above the D2000 centre frame, but should be ~2mm.
5. The Amphenol mini 3pin XLR, male chassis mount connectors are too wide in diameter to fit in the current cable exit holes of the D2000 centre frame.
* If you can see any other problems, copy the list and add them on the bottom~
Potential Solutions, just spit-balling:
For #1 & 2-
Make a kind of base that fits into the cavity that the wood cup can attach to. It would need to be ~8-12mm thick and have pre-drilled screw holes for the wood cups to attach to. The wood cups would be attached to the custom base unit first, then the base unit would have a second set of holes to attache to the D2000 centre frame unit with.
There are existing holes in the D2000 centre frame that could be used for this. The base unit would be made to go across level with the centre frame of the D2000, then extend inward and fit snugly around the driver chamber of the DX1000 wood cups.
For #3-
The same snug fitting area that extends around the driver chamber of the DX1000 wood cups would have pre-drilled mounting holes for the DX1000 earpad frame to screw into.
For #4-
The screw posts that you can see in the pictures would need to be almost sanded down flat. I'm not sure if that will lower the frame enough before the posts get sanded through and then become useless, though. So, any tips here would be appreciated.
For #5-
Mark off and use a Dremel bore out the soft magnesium D2000 centre frame just enough to mount the 3pin mini XLR connectors and nut. Also drill out the custom base unit that will step off the DX1000 wood cups from the D2000 centre frame so that there's room.
P.S.
The above are only my ideas as I see them now, but I really need some input on this as I have no real idea of what to do. In my mind I see some how 3D printing the base unit out of something pretty dense being nice, but I have no clue of how to do that or prep any of the work that would be needed to do to make that happen.
The second idea I had was making a wooden spacer/base unit, but there's going to be a fair bit of it showing and it'd have to look pretty nice...
That's just on the outside, getting all the internals sanded and cut right would be scary. My initial reasoning for this was because I hated the feeling of the DX1000, so whatever DIY work I do I can't be doing a bad job because I'm not that kind of guy AND because it would make me want to kick myself for having ever taken them apart for that reason in the first place...