so far so good with the 441,
man it looks good. gotta love german industrial design. the clip is scary though, like most sennheiser clips. very strong looking metal connected to very attractive and weak looking plastic.
i tested it on my voice, and found it to be very smooth sounding- basically what you would expect- a classy dynamic. the built in low cuts seem pretty useful for voice or guitar stuff.
as far as sound, i ran it against my 57 and oktava 319- it sounded much flatter than the 57, and much less boxy, and yet still had a nice sort of constrained dynamic mic sound to it, not spitty at all. very controlled sounding. the rejection on it is incredible. i moved my mouth away from it unintentionally during tracking, and when i played it back the first thing i thought was that the preamp or the cord failed. the signal just dropped to almost nothing.
the oktava was brighter, airier. sounded much less "rock" and much more "r+b". looking at the specs of the two mics, i would expect a pretty similar amount of high end from the sennheiser, which makes me suspect that it has lost a bit of response in the 30 some odd years it has been around. hard to tell though, it could also be that it has more proximity effect... i'll figure it out later.
anyway, i am sure you will be happy with it...
(with adapter from the DIN plug to the XLR)