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It’s worth buying a simple outlet tester to see what is going on with the electrical source. You can buy a basic one that will tell you the status of the ground, hot and neutral via some colored lights.

Present day, many tube mic PSU are designed in such a way that they do need to have a viable ground at the outlet.

You have reported several seemingly unrelated problems with your Tele USA ELA M.
There was the capsule sound, the perceived richer bottom on the mic you swapped out, and there is now a perceived issue with harshness of tone. A Sweetwater salesman then suggested to use a power conditioner. I would take him up on it, order the unit, try it for a few days, and if it solved your issue, you are done, if not, return it for a full refund.

You have yet to confirm that any of the mic cables you used were terminated correctly. Please do so before you post again.
Here is the correct way to terminate any and every condenser mic cable:

*On the XLR 3-pin cable: The cable shield and ground tap connecting the shell of the connector must be solder-connected to XLR pin #1, on both connectors, no exception.

*On the mic cable between mic and power supply: the cable's ground and shield wires and the connector housing must be connected together, on both ends, no exception.

*Connect chassis ground of the mic pre or whatever you plug the XLR cable into. That means do not engage any ground lifting.

Thank you.

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Thank you all for your input.
I appreciate the responsiveness. I want to believe it is not an issue with the mic as I just swapped my precious mic with Vintage King's. And samples of both mics are attached to the post that started this thread.

I have tried multiple XLR cables to no avail but haven’t tried all my cables. I will do that and report back. My Sweetwater sales engineer responded to my findings with

if there is a lot of inherent noise in the ground line then that could cause the issues that you’re running into. If you have better success with the ground lift engaged, then great, that sounds like the easy solution to your problems! The more permanent and more expensive solution would be to get a high quality power conditioner. I also have grounding issues in my home and the only way around it would be to either get an electrician in and gut the walls, or purchase one of these: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/P2400IT--furman-p-2400-it.

I’m not familiar enough with this subject to know if this is accurate or not. However, the logic seems sound that lifting ground may have improved any grounding issues my building is causing. I live in a large apartment complex. When recording, the high end seems “dirty” and harsh and even crackles at times in the higher frequencies. The low end is lean and/or muffled. I have ran into similar issues with my previous mic, the Blue Bottle tube mic, which I have since sold. Heard it in the studio of the guy I sold it to and of course it sounded gorgeous in his set up ‍♂️.

The other thing is when I have a condenser mic plugged into a bus powered interface, it sounds better or more “normal” than my 251 in the interface pre (although still more normal than through the Neve with the ground lift toggled off).

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I am with Kai: there is something rotten in the state of Denmark! In general my experience has been that lifting grounds on devices that are part of the mic chain is rarely the better or preferred setting.

I always start with examining the XLR cable terminations: I have written endlessly how when not incorporating the connector shells in the shielding and grounding scheme all kinds of noises can enter the system.