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Originally Posted by CrankyRayHanky

I have that royer clone, the RM3. It was selling on Ebay new for $140-175, before this US dealer decided to liquidate and blow them out for $100 a piece. I haven't seen them anywhere in a couple of weeks.

I sent the mic to my mod guy, who said he was unable to upgrade due to size descrepencies; however, he did note that the mic was an exact design of the royer 121 and was astounded as to how they could get away with it.

I grabbed the mic hoping it to deliver on modern high gain Gibson Marshall crunch tones. Having experience with the Royers a couple years ago, my memory of the tone is pretty damn close. I would imagine that the royer's superior-ness would shine on more delicate applications, but considering the price and the results, I am one happy crunching guitar player.

I'll report back after I take my RM3 to a shootout with the Royer.....in fact I bought a second one since!

CrankyRayHanky,
Thanks for the input. Looking forward to the shootout!