Been a while since I jumped in on a C1 thread... you might remember me Alan, we buried the hatchet months ago... and I'm a little surprised to see that very little has changed in the microphone forum...
The way I see it... most people who post to these forum are all a little biased toward the mics and equipment that they personally own. Its only logical, they did buy it. There tends to be a fierce loyalty towards the equipment that we shelled out the bucks for. I've got an AT 4740 SV, I love it and will jump in to recommend it if anyone requests info on mics in that price range... but the simple fact of the matter is that I've actually listened to very few large condenser mics in that price range. I have a CAD 400s, a couple of Octava MC 012s, SM-57s, another Cad95 condenser, but this by no means makes me an expert on Mics, I can comment only on what I've used.  
In fact it can be very hard to get any type of unbiased opinion on any anything out here in cyber space... You've got to take everything with a grain of salt, slowly get a feel for the people posting, view everything with a critical eye, and make decisions based on the information available... all the information. Take what you want from it, but leave the rest alone...
It seems to me that Alan has made himself very available in this forum. Frequent visitors recognize that fact, and are quite capable of coming to their own informed decisions, by reading the posts and considering the source.
Amen?