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If you buy mic in a not-so-good condition, you should be prepared to spend almost 700euro ~ $900 on repairs. It seems it really doesn't matter if your mic is half-broken or just a bit out of spec. Because once they work on it, they ask for almost the same money ;\. For ex. I had possibility to either have the capsule reskined or exchanged for a new one with the only difference in speed of the process!!!
Because this particular M7 was not in the best condition I chose a swap. The price was the same 290e for the material and 150e for the work.
So by using some math - unknown (unimportant?) condition CMV563+M7 repaired (in europe) will cost you 1500-2000e ($1900-$2500), maybe a bit less if you find a good deal. Vintage king sells them for $2750 as far as I know, so you can spare some money, but not much and it is not for sure.
Unrepaired CMVs and UM57 sound interesting, but with many problems mostly in HF area. Well it is mostly various types of distortion that puts the sound down. Softer sounds get through nicely, but put it in front of screamer and you're going to have hard time using what goes out of that tuchel connector...
I'm still waiting for mine to be repaired, but in a week or so I (and mr. carloff too) should be able to report on that.
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