Soliloqueen's k87(k67) and k47 capsules

[MaxxDM]

I just got my flat 47, and I am gonna mount it today.

Is there such a thing as Best Side Selection on the Cardioid/Omni capsules?

If so, which side is the 'best'?

 

[MaxxDM]

About 40 days. Sorry, the backplate Factory not being able to provide good metal was a huge surprise. We had to eat a pretty considerable loss between receiving that news mid-order on an oem production and the resulting production hold. We managed to right ourselves without anyone's anyone's order money, which is a relief. We are in production production on the new plates. We're doing an initial batch of 100 47v plates and 200 87 plates very carefully. We did several preproduction batches and the results were kind of nuts. and those weren't even final spec. I'm really excited.

Great to know you are gaining even more control over the end result

 

[soliloqueen]

I just got my flat 47, and I am gonna mount it today.

Is there such a thing as Best Side Selection on the Cardioid/Omni capsules?

If so, which side is the 'best'?

the letter R/W after the capacitance denotes the wire color of the best side

 

[MaxxDM]

the letter R/W after the capacitance denotes the wire color of the best side

This is what I see

 

[soliloqueen]

This is what I see

dude where's the sticker? the box came blank? i JUST shipped this. how the hell? the stickers are attached at assembly. i would have needed to somehow accidentally swap the box tops with another blank box top while serializing the capsules, which has never happened before. that's wild. I'm going to see if I can find the correct box top here.

 

[soliloqueen]

but i don't test multiple types of capsule at once, so where would a blank box top have even been introduced...? is there someone out there with a cardioid only k47f that has max's box top? lmfao. let me check the serialization logs

 

[SubSpec]

the letter R/W after the capacitance denotes the wire color of the best side

Dangit, I need to flip mine! Kidding, I'm assuming there's little practical difference that would gain me a much of anything worth flipping it.

 

[soliloqueen]

This is what I see

i think it was white for this one, but you might want to try both

 

[MaxxDM]

wait! The cardioid had no sticker?

Ok, it's my fault, I switched the box top.

I see now that it's white

 

[soliloqueen]

wait! The cardioid had no sticker?

Ok, it's my fault, I switched the box top.

I see now that it's white

lmao

 

[MaxxDM]

I had taken off the lid on both to look at them.

 

[soliloqueen]

today for fun i hunted down period-correct metal for the m7. they were made before free-machining brass was standardized, so they're made of lead-modified gunmetal. this is still a common material, so it wasn't too hard to find, just took a bit to track down the current trade code for it.

 

[soliloqueen]

if you're going to be traveling often to areas at different elevations with a k47 or k87, you should use a very thin needle to poke a hole in the rear diaphragm outside of the gold area. neumann capsules that don't have vents built into the backplate assembly ship with these holes:


but we've thus far omitted them because it's not a very common use case. i think we might start doing this with the next batch, but it depends on our center spacer material. if i can find something rigid enough to stand being cut and still keep the gap, we'll do that instead.