kats wrote on Fri, 18 April 2008 18:16 |
Quote: | Mike Castoro explained to me last week that the reason for not copying the flattened dome of the original U47 grille cap is for structural integrity. The flattened style is more succeptible to dents, whereas a rounded dome is stronger (remember the VW Beetle commercials making this point?)
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OTOH the Neumann "flat head" is a much more robust basket than the Flea basket - my bet is that the Neumann basket could take more abuse. If you ever look at the two side by side, the flea basket just looks and feels cheap by comparison.
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I talked with Mike beofre also, He has to say something right? He said a bunch of stuff to me also. (Is he using Peluso capsules in his C12?)
I think that it is sad all of the vintage U47s will now need to be modded to have a more rounded dome...
If structual integrity was the corcern, They have bigger fish to fry than the dome! Hows about that plastic.. I bought them early one so maybe they fixed this maybe not.
"Flea" was selling those on something Like """" vintage mic """" .com before Mike was using them-- I would guess thats what made it harder to get them @ some point.. Business is as does.. I'll stop here to avert attack.
I own 8 of these mics- I can be the 1st to say the dome looks stupid.
I do not buy the spin on it either- If it is true they would have done a better job with the rest of it perhaps-- if it really really is true-- thats a poor choice in my book-
If anything, a curved line seemd to have more exposure to being dented than the REAL baskets. IMO