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They are the ends of the shield twisted into a wire, heat-shrinked and joined to the metal driver casings, yes you can cut it and ignore it. If you really wanted to you could use TRS plugs and use the extra terminal to keep this connection between the shield and driver casing but doubt it does very much at all. The shield is there to pick up interference, if anything you may want to keep that away from the driver.
4 pin xlr has a 5th connection for a shield if your cable is actually shielded but if its already wired with TS male plugs then still nothing you can do with the extra wire from the driver
If you connect the TRS jack's ring to that shield wire that will connect it to the sleeve of TS plug carrying the negative signal, which you dont want to do.I haven't done the mod yet. I'll be using TRS female jacks in the mod, so I was thinking of wiring them like this - Tip = Channel+, Ring = shield, Sleeve = Channel-, so that way I can use my already-built dual TRS 3.5mm (which is only wired on Tip and Sleeve) to 4 pin XLR cable, and then can also build a new cable that uses the shield as well.
If you connect the TRS jack's ring to that shield wire that will connect it to the sleeve of TS plug carrying the negative signal, which you dont want to do.
If you want to do something with TRS jack's extra connection I recommend connecting both ring and sleeve to negative side of driver, so at least you will have a very slightly lower impedance connection for negative signal since both contacts will connect to the plugs sleeve.
Hi all,
Just thought I'd post this to help anyone who might want to disassemble the sliding kits off of the T1's for whatever reason.
I am able to remove the outer cover, by sliding in 2 pieces of thin plastic (i.e. credit cards, etc) cut to 1.5cm width; between the outer cover and the internal slider piece.
Once fully wedged in there, it will flex the outer cover enough to disengage the clips and allow the outer cover to be slid down and off. This should not result in the clips being damaged, but I wouldn't recommend doing it multiple times though.
This shows how the slider pieces somewhat disassembled:
https://s4.postimg.org/qbnylrrlp/IMG_6110+[1280x768].jpg
This shows how I placed the plastic strips to disengage the clips and slide the outer cover off:
https://s4.postimg.org/7i25ortdp/IMG_6108+[1280x768].jpg
Cheers
Guys im about to pickup a used T1 gen1 for $350 USD, it has serial 64xx.
Is this a descent buy?
Anything I should be aware of with the 64xx serial?
Owner claims he bought in 2014.
I've been following this thread since buying my T1 Gen 1 new in Jun 2015 and not noted any S/N related sound difference discussions. My S/N is much higher 23xxx on left earpiece. It also came in a nice silver metal covered carrying case which I rarely use as the T1's are used on a daily basis. The gen 1 has a permanent 6.5mm SE connector/cable and a real leather headband that the gen 2 does not have. I would guess the lower S/N would mean the HP you are considering is older than my 2015 model, or that lower S/Ns were marketed outside the US. I would say the price being asked is a fair one.Guys im about to pickup a used T1 gen1 for $350 USD, it has serial 64xx.
Is this a descent buy?
Anything I should be aware of with the 64xx serial?
Owner claims he bought in 2014.