🔷 Fostex TR-X00 Ebony

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 4:55am

Was talking to mark lawton and he said the type 5 cups have the same sound the ebony stock cups come with. i ordered that type, Bolivian Rosewood.

ValentineLuke · January 25, 2020, 5:20am

Nice…!

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:34am

Can these headphones take a XLR adapter? somthing like this but for 1/4:

also does anyone know where to buy one? i cant seem to find any, their all 3-pin

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:35am

You would need a balanced cable in order to run them balanced. Don’t convert your balanced output on your amp to single ended as you can ground out the amp

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:44am

And that would be a bad thing?

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:45am

Correct, it can harm your amp

We were actually talking about that in a different thread

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:46am

But didnt Zeos use one of these in his videos? and why is massdrop selling them?

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:47am

That converts a 2.5mm balanced to xlr, so it’s balanced to balanced not for unbalanced use

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:48am

well that sucks, the balanced output on the sp200 is better than the 1/4

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:49am

Well I mean you can just get a balanced cable

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:49am

no good, my cable is attached.

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:50am

Ah, I couldn’t recall what version you had. Lawton also does cable mods but yeah then you can’t use balanced

Zaphain · January 25, 2020, 5:50am

How much better is it really, I thought for thx the output was more about convenience and the outputs were pretty much the same, differences minute.

Polygonhell · January 25, 2020, 5:51am

A single ended output is basically L+, R+ and GND connecting ground to both L- and R- on the headphone is harmless.
A balanced output is L+/L- R+/R- connecting L- and R- on the amp to GND on the headphone shorts them out.
There is one exception to this, If the output is not actually balanced and is just exposing a balanced connection, you might get away with it.
Zeos showed one of the bad cables in his Tor Balanced review and warned people not to use them.

M0N · January 25, 2020, 5:51am

That is the case for the sp200 but with stuff like the 887 or 789 the balanced outputs are better with more care into them. But the sp200 has similar specs on both outputs

Zaphain · January 25, 2020, 5:52am

yeah, we’re talking about the sp200, so I wondered why is this a problem.

kinnikuren · January 25, 2020, 5:53am

Well if you don’t want to convert the headphones to removable, you could technically modify the cable by untying the grounds. As the headphones have cables on both sides, it’s already set up for balanced. The issue is where in the cable did they combine the negative channels.

I just ran into the issue when I was modifying the cable I bought for my Nighthawks.

I recently found a pretty useful guide posted by a guy on headfi. https://robrobinette.com/HeadphoneMods.htm

Antpage2 · January 25, 2020, 5:59am

Yeah i saw them. its incredibly expensive. starts at 375$ i guess hes using gold in those cables. /sigh i wish people would get over this cable kick. I could have really used a conversion. I figure a cable conversion should be about 50$ or less

M0N · January 25, 2020, 6:02am

Moon audio does this as well but it’s also pricey. You can look on line and I would say you would most likely be able to get it done for like 100 or so, or just do it yourself

Polygonhell · January 25, 2020, 6:02am

It’s significant work with a chance of destroying the headphones.
If you want to do it cheaper, the parts are dirt cheap, just requires some care and skill.