Topic: Poll: Schoeps setups... bodies versus no bodies

[F.O.Bean]

I prefer the MKxx>KCY/KC5/NBox/TinyBox/etc

[it-goes-to-eleven]

[acidjack]

I actually think this would be better done under a controlled environment. No need to do it at a show.

OK. You bring the guitar or violin or piano or whatever you can play, and I'll bring the beer

[SmokinJoe]

oh yes.. forgot about that. We comped Nbox cables > PFA vs KCY > PFA the other day and while there were more than a few reasons to not declare it definitive proof, I thought the nbox cables sounded ever so slightly better. Electrically, the FET circuits are not equivalent, but it would take someone far smarter than myself to say why one would be superior over the other.

Is it accurate that Nbox cables are chopped KC5's?  I've never seen an NBox in person, but I know I saw a picture once that showed the cables with standard KC5 engraving on the connections. It just wasn't clear to me that this was standard, or a special setup. If it is, I'm surprised everyone calls them "nbox cables" instead of chopped "KC5's" or something.

[F.O.Bean]

Hmmm good question

[jbell]

I think Nick orders the KC connector and builds the cable!!  The one I ran didn't have schoeps cable not sure what was used. 

oh yes.. forgot about that. We comped Nbox cables > PFA vs KCY > PFA the other day and while there were more than a few reasons to not declare it definitive proof, I thought the nbox cables sounded ever so slightly better. Electrically, the FET circuits are not equivalent, but it would take someone far smarter than myself to say why one would be superior over the other.

Is it accurate that Nbox cables are chopped KC5's?  I've never seen an NBox in person, but I know I saw a picture once that showed the cables with standard KC5 engraving on the connections. It just wasn't clear to me that this was standard, or a special setup. If it is, I'm surprised everyone calls them "nbox cables" instead of chopped "KC5's" or something.

[H₂O]

to my knowledge the nbox cables are very different to the KCY or KC5 - the FET/circuit inside is different

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to my knowledge the nbox cables are very different to the KCY or KC5 - the FET/circuit inside is different

thats what I think is true as well.

I think Nick orders the KC connector and builds the cable

Thats also what I think is true.

[acidjack]

^^ This is correct.  The NBox is partially as expensive as it is because of the custom parts from Schoeps, i.e., the necessary parts to house the MK connector.   Chopping KC5s, while faster, and while something that I understand could be made to work, would be prohibitively expensive.

[SmokinJoe]

OK, I think I get it.  He is buying the Schoeps metal housing, which happens to be labeled KC5 at least on some of them.  As explained on the AKG and Gefell active project, it's that machining to get the housings built that is the hard part.

[F.O.Bean]

Yinz are forgetting the Lemosax. IMHO the best combo w/ schoeps caps/KCY's