Few days ago I completed the build of my first two AOM 5024 mics.
The build is simple, well documented (Tom's blog and Jules' instructable. BTW thanks to them I joined this great community). I trusted Jules and ommited shielding of the capsule. No hums, interferences - nice & quiet.
But the enclosures... Could've made them myself but wanted a more elegant solution.
It took me a while but eventually I've found dirt cheap enclosures on aliexpress.
The dimensions given in the description are ridiculous, no mention of the inner diameter but creative comparative eyeballing convinced me to take the huge risk of ordering a couple for 50-60 cents apiece. Total with postage to Poland - ca $3,50.
Here's the link:
There's a choice of terminals: TRS or TRRS. Irrelevant - the cable is single shielded file, unsuitalke for our purposes - you will get rid of it anyway.
Cable OD - 2 mm.
I had a 4 mm one so I had to get rid of the rubber strain relief and get creative with shrink tubing.
The front cover screws into the body and is relatively easy to unscrew with fingers. If it fights back - use a piece of rubber or a latex glove for better grip.
There's a steel mesh just pushed in the cover. Prone to falling out. Lousy job, but for 50 cents, good enough.
Inner diameter of the enclosure is 10 mm so AOMs, with their required insulation, fit nicely.
The cover's ID is 8,5 mm so our capsule would be pushed inside and the distance from front of enclosure to the face of the capsule would be ca 3,5 mm.
Fearing sound colouration I mounted mine flush with the edge.
The clips are quite well made. The spring is strong.
They can be removed (again springy holder).?
Before soldering everything together it's good to make sure that the clips are put on the enclosures in opposite directions (for left and right microphone mounting on whatever you'll put them on).?
And the photos:
