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Manley Reference Cardioid - Chinese capsule?
radiovinheta:
I'm buying a Manley Ref. Cardioid...
I found an information that i need to know that's true.
This mic uses Chinese Capsule? High price for these, if true...
Tim Campbell:
As far as I've been told by Manley they use David Josephson's capsules. The confusion might come from the fact that David uses phillips head screws to secure his membranes so that they look a little similar to some of the chinese capsules.
-After checking around the web a bit it may be that only the gold reference mic uses David's capsule.
They claim that the Langevin fet mic uses the same capsule as the Reference cadiod and go on to say that all it's parts are sourced overseas.
Maybe Eveanna can chime in and clear this up?
Nick Sevilla:
Just to chime in,
I use one of these for a few years with a client who has one.
Wonderful mic, regardless of where the parts are actually made.
Cheers
radiovinheta:
Yes, Gold use Josephson capsule.
But Cardioid seems to use chinese capsule, is the same of Langevin fet mic?
compasspnt:
Merely the fact that a capsule is made in China does not by definition make it terrible.
There are a couple of good capsules made there, based in fact and in part upon direct input from Gefell; but of course the majority is certainly less than that quality.
If using the best of Chinese capsules, it would then depend upon how the designer had implemented it into the total system.
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