With the beyerdynamic CK930's, I believe that Jon could make you a tinybox that would power the caps directly, and then you'd have an even smaller setup.
That's definitely interesting. Are the capsules for sale individually anywhere, or would I still have to buy the kit with the phantom adapter?
If you contact a beyerdynamic dealer, you can probably get them to place a special order for just the capsules (either the CK930 cardioid, or the CK950 supercardioid capsules).
I was told no from a couple of places when I picked up the 950s; kits only per the american beyer office.
I honestly wish you better luck and encourage you to call, maybe you'll get a different answer. The bummer is the components have a price structure similar to neumann where the caps are $$ and the bodies are cheap. To compound matters, they will sell the bodies separately (a
set of bodies is like $250usd), but not the caps. Now, supposedly you can call the German office (and/or dealer in Germany) and they will do it, but you have to deal with someone there specifically and it wasn't worth it to me for the cost of the bodies.
Also, be careful about anything outside of what your preferred vendor has in stock or the US distributor has in stock cause it then has to come from HQ. When I special ordered my 930s (had them matched in Germany), it took an additional month, so I was out like 6 weeks or so from order to carry. I've been told today that my 950s will show up at the US
distributor in the first week of February, and I'll have them in hand around Valentines Day, 7 months after ordering. (again, matched, same seller)
If I was going do it over again and try and skimp on bodies, I'd do it on the 930s since I think they make more of them and more often, and pick up the bodies on the 950s which it seems tougher to find standard sets for sale. I'd even be tempted to take whatever the US distributor had in hand for the 950s and just live with it.
//slightly salty.
I use the tinybox with my Beyers (CK930) with great results. Love the tinybox! I actually have 2 of them!
Could you clarify.....is this the mic caps>cable>mic body>tinybox
or is it
mic caps>cable>tiny box no mic bodies ?
It can be set either way. I don't know if you can do both (as settings) on a
single box though, that is something that may have to be specified when you order one (either/or). Jon can elaborate on that.