Thank you for clarifying, Klaus.
If I'm correct, the video was shot at one of the remaining large, established studio here in LA. The singers seemed to be in the same room, with some shots in iso rooms. I wasn't there, so I don't know for fact.
As it stands you statement is not supported by anything but circumstantial evidence.
We don't know, and I haven't asked Ed Cherney what his criteria for selecting mics was that day. Were they in a hurry? Did Ed use stuff he was familiar with? Dis they really even devote much time to the mic selection? Does an established studio like that even have any new mics, or the $$$ for them? Don't know. Might not even matter to them, $$$ might get prioritized elsewhere. It doesn't mean that through careful evaluation and selection of all of the microphone choices possible in the world today, that's what they decided upon, to the exclusion of all else, deliberately, it means that's what happened THAT day,due to circumstance.
If this had happened 60 years ago, the room would have been filled with RCA ribbons. 90 years ago, a turntable with the horn connected to the stylus. In 30 years, who knows. Ed used what he knew, and what was there that day. In 30 years Ed' successor might use something else. Mic selection, like guitars, can very well boil down to comfortable fashion for the engineer and studio (I don't recall Ed having his own mic collection on any sessions at Oceanway). To address what's in Henson's mic locker, well, I'm guessing most of it was bought some years ago. Just because they might not have (again I don't know for fact) any new mics doesn't mean it was a decision of exclusion.
If I were to use the logic of your statement and apply it to a personal example, then all of the old crappy mic cables we used at Oceanway to record all those big commercial releases & hits are good, and all the new mic cables people make now belong on the "wall of shame" as an indictment of their inadequacy at capturing great artists.
In addition to the lack of evidence =for your point (one video, no backround story or research) there are mics made after 1973 (my date threshold) that get used by famous artists (even for vocals) on hit and large commercial release albums, which contradicts your conclusion. I may have even seen a video or two of this.
regards,
David