BenneB- With all due respect, the NT2 is a cheap, Chinese-Australian hybrid microphone which is made to look like a real industry standard, a Neumann U87, which costs about 9 times as much, and is in all regards, a vastly superior mic. A "pretty hefty price" for a main vocal mic is in the $1000's of US dollars. The Rode Classic II is a fairly bright multipattern tube mic, which begins to approach the level of a world class mic.
That said, several of the Rode mics are good buys for a budget studio, particularly NTK/K2. Hate to break your bubble, but Rode doesn't build world class mics. They build middle level prosumer mics that are generally worth what they cost. An NT2 simply isn't in competition with top level offerings by Neumann, Microtech Gefell, Brauner, Soundelux, Schoeps, B.L.U.E., and others-Richie