[SvenFi]

Hello. I have a pair of HD800's and had a problem a faulty 1/4" plug. Even though they were slightly past the warranty period, Sennheiser showed off stellar customer support by sending me a brand new cable. I asked where to ship the faulty cable back and they said I didn't have to. So.......

Since my headphone amp has both balanced and 1/4" outputs, I figured why not try to convert my original stock cable to a 4-pin Balanced XLR. Is this possible? I have been looking online and have not been able to find any straight forward answers or guides.

Any info or points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[cossix]

The basic idea of it is to snip off the 1/4" and solder an XLR to the end. There should be 4 wires in the cable: one hot and one negative for each cup. There should be a few images floating around Google showing which pin on the XLR is which. Then it's just a matter of soldering and making it look pretty