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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 91678" data-attributes="member: 4463">Re: Suggestions for MKE2 plug replacement?Thanks, Brian, for finding that. We hadn&#039;t considered adapters, but it certainly avoids the problem of recreating the impedance/sensitivity circuitry (only a resistor and a capacitor, but has to be the RIGHT resistor and capacitor!).I found another adaptor made by Thomann in Germany, which consists of a Lemo line socket and a 1/8&quot; plug and a few inches of cable, which is arguably more sensible than the one-piece Betso solution, as it can be folded instead of being effectively one really long plug which is then harder to strain-relieve, but they didn&#039;t have any in stock and their international shipping costs were a bit silly.I then considered making up our own, and even got as far as soliciting some helpful input from Lemo themselves (their US office turns out to be about 15 miles from where I live!) who suggested a way of customizing one of their other socket models to work with the FVB.00.303 plugs on the mics, but those sockets are $28 each in small amounts, and decent 1/8&quot; locking plugs seem to be $10-12, plus obtaining suitable cable, and then having the time and skills and inclination to build them (none of which I do).In the end, even though $69 each sounded exorbitant at first, I decided that the Betso adaptors were actually worth it, and have this morning ordered a couple of them from their NY distributor. I just hope they work as advertised <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 91678, member: 4463"] Re: Suggestions for MKE2 plug replacement? Thanks, Brian, for finding that. We hadn't considered adapters, but it certainly avoids the problem of recreating the impedance/sensitivity circuitry (only a resistor and a capacitor, but has to be the RIGHT resistor and capacitor!). I found another adaptor made by Thomann in Germany, which consists of a Lemo line socket and a 1/8" plug and a few inches of cable, which is arguably more sensible than the one-piece Betso solution, as it can be folded instead of being effectively one really long plug which is then harder to strain-relieve, but they didn't have any in stock and their international shipping costs were a bit silly. I then considered making up our own, and even got as far as soliciting some helpful input from Lemo themselves (their US office turns out to be about 15 miles from where I live!) who suggested a way of customizing one of their other socket models to work with the FVB.00.303 plugs on the mics, but those sockets are $28 each in small amounts, and decent 1/8" locking plugs seem to be $10-12, plus obtaining suitable cable, and then having the time and skills and inclination to build them (none of which I do). In the end, even though $69 each sounded exorbitant at first, I decided that the Betso adaptors were actually worth it, and have this morning ordered a couple of them from their NY distributor. I just hope they work as advertised :) [/QUOTE]

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