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I gotta give these boyz a mention:

KMR Audio: http://www.kmraudio.com/catalogue/index.php

After some 'research' here I grabbed a couple of the ****ty, crude, cheap
Oktava MK319 mics* from KMR Audio and it has turned out they are 'out of
phase with each other...!!! (Big surprises all round and I bet a few
wiseacres here will tap their noses about Russian products....?? :-)

Anyway, on their own it represented no big problem, but with the arrival of
a pair of equally cheap *blameless* (in phase) Chinese mics, one of the
Oktavas is definitely the odd man out now and is probably going to have to
have its neck wrung.

Now, I'm a queer old coot and I don't want to just fire the thing back for
exchange because I don't like *replacements* if they can be avoided - you
spend the rest of your time with them making silly, invidious comparisons
with the *memory* of one you had and sent back, if nothing else...

So I speak to Niki at KMR to ask about the 'disassembly' of the odd one - he
confirmed it's unlikely to be a simple 'bottom off' affair and that the
whole gubbins (diaphragm and everything) will probably have to be drawn....

'Ooh, ********' sez I..... (Getting a little bit of a sweat on...)

He said 'go for it' and if you can't fix it, just send it all back and I'll
send you out another one - my bloke can have that one to sort out!

Feck! How much more could you ask for...??


* ****ty - really? Crude - really?

Churchill Insurance voice

Ooh, *nooo*, choockle, choockle!!

:-))

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"Keith G" wrote in message

I gotta give these boyz a mention:

KMR Audio: http://www.kmraudio.com/catalogue/index.php

After some 'research' here I grabbed a couple of the
****ty, crude, cheap Oktava MK319 mics* from KMR Audio
and it has turned out they are 'out of phase with each
other...!!! (Big surprises all round and I bet a few
wiseacres here will tap their noses about Russian
products....?? :-)

So I speak to Niki at KMR to ask about the 'disassembly'
of the odd one - he confirmed it's unlikely to be a
simple 'bottom off' affair and that the whole gubbins
(diaphragm and everything) will probably have to be
drawn....

Boy, the russkies sure know how to make something that is usually simple,
into something quite complex.

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In article ,
Arny Krueger wrote:
Boy, the russkies sure know how to make something that is usually
simple, into something quite complex.

IMHO the only possible fault would be incorrect wiring of the actual XLR
output plug - everything else should be on a PCB.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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In article ,
Arny Krueger wrote:

Boy, the russkies sure know how to make something that
is usually simple, into something quite complex.

IMHO the only possible fault would be incorrect wiring of
the actual XLR output plug - everything else should be on
a PCB.

Agreed. A common form of mic construction has wires from the receptacle on
the mic to the circuit card. Often the mic screws apart in a way that allows
the circuit card to slide out. A few minutes with a multimeter, and you know
which wire goes to which contact on the receptacle.