"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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bcoombes bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote:
Iain Churches wrote:
"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEUMANN-M49-M-...item4ced1c1b56

£7195.....!!! Ah I see, it comes with a recording studio as well.


Naah! It's one of those tatty old valve mics that no one wants these
days:-)

I was at an auction a couple of years ago in which two of these, with
adjacent serial number were sold for 180k DKr (the equivalent of £20k
for the pair)


Hmm, Iain, I don't know if you know this but if you were to take one of
these mics and hitch it up to really good electrostatic [say] speaker
[via suitable amplification] and then speak into it how would the sound
coming out of the speaker compare with the original voice? And also say
a modern decent quality mic?

One difficulty is that many even studio quality mics have a rising
frequency response curve at the upper end. Won't go into the reasons here.

Perhaps that's one of the reasons why so many like the sound
of the original U47 and M49. Their response is tapering off
at the upper end.

Iain