| I got pretty lucky... bought five MK319's from GC when they were blowing them out... $55 each, and they are ALL Russians: correct capsule and resonator disk, no chinese electrolytics, russian frequency plots per mic, etc.
I've modified two of them per Scott Dorsey's mod in Recording a year or so ago, and they're great. I'm really surprised by how much I love them on picked acoustic guitar -- really huge sounding.
At some point I'm gonna try some tube circuits in the others.
If MJ is doing anything similar to the Dorsey mods then I say it's definitely worth it, especially if you're not hip to unsoldering and resoldering components on fairly fragile PCB's. Money well spent to make a truly useful studio tool from an affordable mic.
Joel |