Just curious, for those of you who had 604's, 603's, 991's before this order - did you find that the build is a lot cheaper? That they weigh about half of what the older ones did? Curious. They were not what I expected, although I haven't had a chance to listen to them yet.
It's been a while, but in my mind, they seemed to be quite a bit lighter. I got my other set back in 2004 from an ebay dealer. I grabbed these on the stupid deal, not necessarily because I loved them, but because I knew what they sounded like, and they were dirt cheap, and I let my brother borrow my other set, and I figured at that price I could afford to let him keep them.
So my view is completely subjective, because I don't have the other set with me, but, yes, in my memory, the others weighed more. I may be getting stronger though
I tried them out for a minute in an xy with a stereo bar. They sounded good except that I was getting kind of a high pitched squeal, which increased if I touched the mics and seemed to decrease depending on how I moved the wires around. I've currently got kind of a cable nightmare, and now that I think about it, it might have been because the wires were running close to my tube power supply, which was on.
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Now that I think about it....that's probably what it was. I had headphones on, and when I lifted the wires up from the general area of the ps, the sound seemed to go away. Ok. I'm feeling really dumb about that in retrospect. But my son woke up from his nap before I had that epiphany. I'll have to give them another shot soon.
Dr Bill, do you happen to have an old and a new mic? It would be interesting to weigh them, to see if it's just in our minds. The ones I bought before didn't come with a case though, so that's an improvement.