any news on the project?
-Noah
Alright, the project was succesfull!
I bought two CK93 (hyper) caps. I posted on the AKG service board and got a *very* prompt reply from Karl@AKG. This has been done before. He gave me tech drawings of the caps and even a schematic for the battery box.
OK, after some mechanical tinkering I was able to solder three short wires and get them out of the capsule through the bayonet connector. The three wires are: +battery, audio, ground. Then I soldered a lav. mic cable with a 3-pin mini XLR. My battery box has two 3-pin mini XLR sockets on it and goes to a 1/8" male plug. It works great!
Send me a PM if you want to do this. It is not hard, but can be a bit tricky on your first time. I'm sure I could improve the mechanical construction too. Right now I've got got hot melt glue and covered it with shrink wrap. Not too professional, but it works great.
I'm still testing, comparing these to my standby AT853 (H/C/O) caps. I think they are better, but I don't know how much better.
Richard