OK, this ought to be good. Couldn't decide to post here, or in the battery box or cable forum.
Bought a pair of CK91 caps, cables and batter box in the yard sale. Have a couple of questions:
Came with a (I guess) homebrew 9v battery box. From what I've read, these caps need 9-18v. If that's the case, would stepping up to 18v power get me anything? Better sound? Higher SPL?
And would powering them with something like a tinybox and using phantom power adaptors give me better sound than just running a battery box?
Also, would having the 300 bodies do anything other than acting as a pp adaptor and giving me some bass roll off options?
I've seen several posts about AKG adaptors that let you run caps on different bodies that what they were designed for. Anyone know of an adaptor for the blue line caps that would allow me to run a different body than the 300?
Thanks in advance, Dan
I own some ck91 actives, so I'll chime in and hopefully fill on some blanks that others have not answered yet.
A fellow member here did the active mod on my mics and also made a 9v battery box to go along with it.
So that was my setup initially.
Ultimately I had Chris Church make a 9100 preamp for me to run with these capsules. I had to send him my mics and existing battery box but he was able to configure a 9100 preamp to work with the ck91 capsules. If you want to consider a tinybox to use with these, you will have to check with Jon/Naint first before you go buying something first.
But NO you cannot use phantom power when using just the capsules! 9v is all they need! (12 may be sufficient too for all I know, which isn't much) Phantom power is only needed when you are using these capsules AND their bodies together.
In regards to using/not using the bodies, one particular thing you lose when not using the bodies in that distinct "AKG sound" as the active option that is available for those caps does not maintain that "sound." Same can be said for most other mics and their own active solution.
I am going to guess your cables are hard wired into the caps? If so, then you cannot use the bodies anymore, that is I guess if you want to hack off the cable and figure out how to get the bodies back into the equation.
Most (if not all) other items have already been addressed so I guess I can stop there