OK, I have been warned not to make this post, and perhaps indeed I shouldn't...the thought was that it might instantly drive up the used (read "eBay") price of certain microphones...but hopefully not...
I have now done my "de-transformerisation" of the venerable Shure 545S. This was one of the mics that we always used to use for things like snare back in the pre-57 days. In fact, this mic recorded the snare on "I'll Take You There" and "Respect Yourself."
I have three of these little guys, and once the trans-x mod mania had started, I took a new look at them. Two were in "perfect," like-new condition, but one already had a broken on-off switch and a few scratches. I normally don't like to modify or change in any cosmetic way any of the old "vintage" gear, but since I had two others, the 57 mod had worked well, and one 545 was already not perfect, I decided to give it a try. The downside of all of these mics (to me) was that the connector is an old 4 pin Amphenol screw-on connector. I don't have any of these cables anymore, so I haven't been using the 545's for that reason. I decided that, in addition to taking out the transformer, I might as well change the output to an xlr at the same time. And as long as I was doing that, then why not install the R