Perhaps, but have you actually read some of the apocrypha?
I have and much of it is obvious bullocks. Some of it may very well be legit.
However, you are correct that this is not particularly the place to discuss such things (if there is any place where you shouldn't), I was not the one who started the dicussion. I simply said God Willing and was rebutted for it, and it blossomed out from there.
Now to get back to mic preamps. Anybody every used a Gates M5530? If so what did you think of it?
Peace
Adrian