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Old 23rd May 2005   #22
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Originally Posted by Labs
So just because telefunken is suspected to change a few caps and rebrand this mic you all throw yourself at it ? I mean, its still the chinese tube mic it always was. There are probably at least a handfull or two of those you could try out or mod.

I just dont get it. How many of you wouldve bought it if not for the hype?
Im gonna laugh my ass off if it turns out aphex was involved in the "exposure" of telefunken...

anyways.. - as you were.

Gustav

a fair point...but the logic runs like this:

Telefunken pick a mic, breathe on it and make a mic that retails for $xyz. Lets assume that Telefunken believe is sounds good enough to warrant that much money. It turns out you can buy a similar 'unbreathed on' mic for $159 - so that makes me interested enough to give it a listen. If it's a pile of sh*t, which is likely/possible/probable, then it makes a good basis for a project. You couldn't make a psu/case/mic body for that amount of money.

So yeah, the "exposure" did make me go out and buy the mic but that's not necessarily a bad thing - reading about the Great River preamp on this site made me go out and buy one of those too !

si
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