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Originally Posted by
jwh1192
wow, 7 years and it seems no change in the D12 world ... i use the D112 and have been pretty happy wth it ..
I realize it's uber-hip to denigrate people who post on "old" threads (whatever YOUR concept of "old" is). I personally think the people who do this are idiots; that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Truth is, the search for great audio is as old as recording itself. Reading or responding to a thread - regardless of its age - has no bearing on anything.
Second, I've found that many people who swear by the "next best thing" really haven't worked with THE actual gear in question. Therefore, in a discussion in which one is COMPARING qualities between A and B, someone swearing that A is just as good as B, yet never having thoroughly worked with B... well, their opinion means nothing to me.
Now that we got this out of the way, I HAVE worked with quite a bit of the top gear; Neumanns, Neves, LA2A, API and so forth. I have done EXTENSIVE A/B tests with equipment; done many exacting shoot-outs in my day and I have damn discerning ears. Quite often, modern "clone" equipment is not up to snuff. There are exceptions - a number of fine makers of condenser mics of the Neumann / AKG / Telefunken variety, etc.
But usually, dynamics today are not like their vintage predecessors - and I own most of the vintage dynamics and have owned the modern stuff too. (I usually sell off the modern stuff because it almost never sounds as good).
This AKG D12 is one example of a mic that I feel has not been properly "cloned" yet, for whatever reason. The D112 you like is not like a D12, nor is the D12 VR or whatever they're calling it.
So, if you have not worked with both A and B and done good tests with them, do me a favor and don't comment on a post, and certainly there is no need to comment in a condescending tone.