Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I don't understand what MJ was trying to accomplish with their cable that supposedly allows you to plug the cable into the cups without worrying about which plug is left or right and still have the proper channels connected. Someone said the idea is that you can plug the cable in in the dark and not have to worry that the channels are correct and not possibly reversed. But the phones themselves are labeled L and R, so you would have to be able to see the phones before you put them on to get them properly oriented. So it seems to me you would orient the phones and orient the cables that should also be marked L and R and then you can turn out the lights and all is well. It seems to me that MJ was trying to address a 'problem' that really doesn't need to be addressed with their unorthodox cable wiring.
So, if the stock cable is wired as stated in the post below with the L channel as tip/sleeve and the R channel as ring/sleeve, then no aftermarket cable is going to work. You will need to have a cable wired only for the MJ2. It may be possible to open up the cups and rewire the wires from the connector to the drivers to match your cable but I hope that's not the case. Maybe someone here who already has the MJ2 and has only used the stock cable can check the continuity from the cup connectors to the amp plug and tell us how the cable is wired. Would be nice to know this before the phones arrive so I can possibly be prepared with a balanced cable using a 4-pin Neutrik connector on the amp end.
Of course it would be ideal if MJ would respond and clarify this. As I said above, an email to them thru their website asking for clarification4 days ago has not elicited a response.
You could still make a balanced cable for a headphone that is wired this way, but you would have to mark the cable L and R, since there the two channels do not share a common ground.