A well deserved BUMP here. Honestly PAGE 9 what is goin on ?
Zoinks! Yikes! - as they used to say in the cartoons.
A bit of celebration is in order on my side here.
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Insert deep rumbling shadowy black object slowly piercing the cloud layers of a thunder and lightning-stricken mountainous surface world, slowly fading to black as it blocks what little light there is.Decades later: Skip to lab-type setting with manuals, overly caffeinated orthonaut fiddling with digital meters and soldering iron and consulting glowing computer screens. "that's it!" you can hear him softly mutter in disbelief and skip over to the final electrical activation, he throws the switch . It has risen...
Risen from it's long stasis and suspended animation, across unfathomably vast distances that threaten to make a mortal mind go insane thinking about it,
came an Echo TDS-16 Kiev.
Representative of the long since past Eastern civilization of the ages, the ambassador has been activated and successfully revived. A bit of prodding and updating the electrical interface ( 5 pin XLR to new TRS ) and it speaks, as though no time at all has passed to it.)
Pads need some attention but that pleather is SOFT so it is fine for now.
There has to be some sort of interest to get people back in here, why not make some grandiose story up i figure.
Initially i had bought a Neutrik female 5-pin XLR to make an adaptor for this thing as I wanted to keep the stock plug. Seems the old standard is slightly different or I grabbed the wrong ones. It sure was close though.
Grabbed the trusty hand signed manual that this thing came with and flipping back to page 11 I see a pin number diagram going to speaker icons.
So up the road I go and a great fella i know at the local coffee place proceeded to translate that page for me. Lucky as the icon on the left of the page was the right side pins, and the icon on the right side of the diagram was the left side pin-out.
Not what I was expecting and saved me a ton of frustrations.
I confirmed this pin-out arrangement with a multimeter and eyeballing that side up to the respective cup entries.
Here's a
very makeshift fast sloppy diagram for future 5 pin to TRS swaps. ( at least for these )Of course individual items may vary. This is however pinned out according to the standard as posted on Wikipedia.
Facing the male plug, pins to the top, from right to left and facing them: 1–4–2–5–3. Holes on female connectors are also numbered 1-4-2-5-3, but from left to right facing them.
So I obliged by sampling 3 different espresso drinks ( 2 shots each, bit of water and a few shots of unsweetened cocoa .) 6 shots later
i can't sleep and resurrected this headphone.
Neat little manual with serial number in it as well. Apparently this matches up with the number on this particular pair.
A couple more shots for the heck of it.
I hope this helps someone in the future messing around with this plug swap.
Beautiful cans so far. I have no intention of modding this.
These eastern companies need to start making the TDS "series" again they would clean house. Do us all a favour and
pull off the white dust covers and crank up those factories!
, One you have not heard !!
