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My understanding of it is that Beyer's ribbon stock is quite different from that of the classic ribbon mics, maybe along the lines of the ribbons in the Fostex mics. Probably helps their longevity a bit.
The way I would do the Chinese ribbon mic thing is have the factory do the basic assembly, but have ribbon installed and tensioned in the western world. If the qc on the production is good, I don't see why this couldn't yield pretty great results with a good design. If it's to be in the SP line, I would seriously consider doing an active circuit like Royer and Oktava do (preferable the way Royer does it, which is to say good sounding) as a lot of folks would use this mic with lower quality pres and blame the Mackie on the mic. And I trust it'd be tastefully different looking from competing current products.
(Alan, feel free to bring my suggestions over to your forum for discussion if you want. Nothing wrong with more good sounding gear on the market.)
Bear
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