Source For LDC Capsules?

<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Can anyone give me a list of non-Chinese LDC capsule makers? I'm
>building a mic, and want to know what are the best sounding capsules
>being made right now. Thanks!

A-T, Neumann, Gefell, AKG, Sony, Sanken, and Shure all actually make real
capsules in-house, though. So do some of the smaller companies. Getting
them to sell you a replacement capsule, though, is nontrivial.

What best-sounding means is a good question, though, in a world where the
whole point of the microphone is the off-axis aberration.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone give me a list of non-Chinese LDC capsule makers? I'm
>> building a mic, and want to know what are the best sounding capsules
>> being made right now. Thanks!
>
> A-T, Neumann, Gefell, AKG, Sony, Sanken, and Shure all actually make
> real capsules in-house, though. So do some of the smaller companies.
> Getting them to sell you a replacement capsule, though, is nontrivial.
>
> What best-sounding means is a good question, though, in a world where
> the whole point of the microphone is the off-axis aberration.
> --scott

And RODE. Though if you are rascist you may not like ozzies as well as
chinks.

Or did you (OP) really want to know who makes good consistant-quality LDC
capsules ?


geoff