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Originally Posted by George Necola  never buy a matched pair (modded or unomodded).. they are NEVER matched..
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Actually, all Oktava microphones ordered as pairs are rigorously matched.
Oktava has 6 large anechoic chambers in their Tula factory, one of which is shown below. Every single microphone manufactured by Oktava is tested multiple times during assembly - from component parts through completed units. Each mic is individually tested in one of the anechoic chambers and a pen-plot frequency response graph is run.
Pairs of microphones are culled from large production runs by matching individual frequency response graphs. Each matched pair of microphones is sold with a "pair plot" - an on-axis frequency response of both microphones plotted on a single pen plot chart.
This is a level of attention and quality control that harkens back to the glory days of microphone manufacturing in the 1950's and '60's and is unmatched by the plethora of inexpensive, look-alike, sound-alike mics flooding the market.
Respectfully, MJ