Yeah, not a misunderstanding at all, I want option 6 but the 'howto' seems to be just like option 2 - my distributor also said he *thinks* DC power to tip (ring) and both audio hot and shield to ground would be alright, it just didn't seem right (to me and others) for some reason, guess I was wrong.
As for the 406x, they only have 2 wires per mic whereas the COS-11s come with 3 so I'd rather not mess up by making unqualified assumptions myself, I barely know a thing about these mics. Those tiny cables look so fragile and I wouldn't want to desolder more than once. I just hope they'll be working fine come December 1st since I'm flying up to the ATP festival in England and would love to have them with me.
I'm in Austria, by the way. Nice to see so many familiar faces on here, makes it easier to stop lurking and post more frequently (not sure if we ever did trade, I remember looking at your list quite often in 2002 when I started to get 'serious' [as in, spent a lot of time/money on trades] about collecting, still in contact with people like Karl Frinkle, Per, Jeff Shaw, Galen, Travis S., Ryan A., etc. even though I'm pretty much not trading at all right now, I hope that'll change again soon, haven't updated since May and haven't transferred masters in quite a while now, either).
Oh, and I'm Martin.