Mercenary selling out Neumann's

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Pretty good model as far as I'm concerned. All my dealings with Mercenary have been very good (Lucid GenX6, two RNCs so far). The new mic sounds pretty interesting. I've kind of been holding out for the Steven Paul mic. I wonder how they'll compare?
 
"6) A couple of the 'Marshall Mics' I've tried but don't remember the model ##."

Dang, Fletcher, I sure wish you could remember. These are the only mics you'rve mentioned that I can afford. :D
 
Fletcher, thanks for the mic list.

Track Rat, I've been 100% happy with Mercenary Audio also.

tdukex, I bet one of the Marshall mic's Fletcher is talking about is the MXLV69.
 
Fletcher,

Thanks for taking the time for that mic list for a bunch of us wannabes - Now, speaking of dictators, can I interest you in a line of Iraqey mics?
 
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tdukex said:
"6) A couple of the 'Marshall Mics' I've tried but don't remember the model ##."

Dang, Fletcher, I sure wish you could remember. These are the only mics you'rve mentioned that I can afford. :D

The MXL V77 comes very close to the Neumann sound. (sorry, I'm not Fletcher)
 
Giganova said:
He could just as well post a pix of Saddam Hussein in front of a Shure mic, which would have the same content: none.

Well how about a picture of George W. Bush in front of neumanns?

-V
 
vkoivula said:
Well how about a picture of George W. Bush in front of neumanns?

-V

I saw a picture on TV the other day of Bush and Hitler side by side with their right arms raised in the air giving the hi-5 sign. That's not something we see much of here in the USA. It was funny as heck, and really scary at the same time. I thought the Hitler Neumann picture was funny, and scary at the same time also. I hate war. One of my hopes is... the internet will help us people of the world overcome war with friendship.
 
Reality of the internet

Let me say as someone who has seen war from a very personal view I am not to fond of it myself.

If you think that using the internet to help stop war will work - it won't - at least at this time.

Every politician in any country in the world takes very little note of the internet because of its impersonal nature.

If you want results - politicians still respond to letters. That takes you time and your stamp to get it to them. They do notice this.

Now if you could just get that letter to all the baddies in the world to. Do you think they will listen?
 
Giganova said:
I just find his comparison of Hitler (in terms of dictatorship) with Sennheiser/Neumann very offensive!

Then be offended. If you think you're going to go through life without ever being offended by something... you're wrong.

Maybe I am too sentive coz I am German.

So am I... but somehow I'm not offended.

What I don't understand is the following: if he doesn't agree with Sennheiser/Neumann's price policy (which, by the way, is very common in Europe and sometimes, believe it or not, for the benefit of the customers), no-one is forcing him to sell their products.

No shit sherlock... notice, we no longer sell their products... we're liquidating current inventory at cost.


After all, its THEIR loss if they have one dealer less, not his, especially if he has a good customer support and low prices to satisfy many customers. So why does he try to humiliate them and start a private war, which he even publicly displays on his web site?

Uhhh... because we don't really like to keep anything "private". If we dropped Neumann without an explanation, I'd have to explain why for the next several years... much like I have to explain why we through Universal Audio out of our store several years ago... this way it wastes a whole lot less of our staff's time dealing with explaining why we're not dealing with them anymore.

As for the 'humiliation' part... well, if you're going to expend the effort... have some fucking fun with it if you can.


I think that's just plain childish and very un-professional.

Every now and again it's good to explore your inner child. As for what is, and what ain't professional... who's to say.


Also, if he had a strong opinion on their business philosophy (dictatorshio or not), he should boycott ALL of their products. Instead, he still tries to make money with their products by selling their vintage stuff. That's just very inconsequent. Just my 2 cents and no offense intended.

Well it's pretty obvious why you're not a fuckin' MENSA candidate. Let's see... new product, made by manufacturer... vintage product... made by manufacturer many years ago, sold to end user... passes from end user to end user over the years... the manufacturer benefits from these end user to end user transactions how?

We "boycott" everything they currently manufacture. As for shit that was made 30-40-50 years ago... some of it is pretty good... some of it hasn't been maintained very well and is shit. The stuff that is well maintained can also be known as "good tools"... the stuff that isn't well maintained would be known as "old shit".

We will, as we have for the last 14 years, endeavor to find tools of the finest caliber, and offer them for purchase. If that includes a microphone in excellent condition that was built in 1956... then that includes a microphone in excellent condition that was built in 1956.

When Neumann/USA came to us a decade ago and asked us if we would please become a dealer for their new product... we initially balked. We had been dealing the best of their 'vintage' product for years and didn't deal in 'new equipment'. After some cajoling, some wining and dining on their part, we acquiesced and became a dealer for their new product.

See... we had credibility for only providing our clients with the finest products available. That reputation was of use for Neumann/USA to expand their operations. Well... they've expanded it... they're now in all 110 Banjo Marts around the nation... they no longer need us, we no longer need them... so we're going back to the original model.

Do you "get it" now?
 
vkoivula said:
Well how about a picture of George W. Bush in front of neumanns?

Bush travels with his own production... which includes Shure SM-57s [made in Mexico]. To put "G. Dubya" in front of Neumann's would require the alteration of photograph [with something like 'photoshop']... the photograph on our site of 3x Neumann CMV-3 microphones and Hitler is a 'historical photograph'. It's not a "made up" photograph.

No one at our place was alive when that photograph was taken. For some reason people like to forget unpleasant things that have happened in history... which makes us doomed to repeat them. Think about it.
 
Fletcher,

I'd heard some pretty strong rumours within the industry that at least SM57s were coming out of Asia, supposedly on the same production line as 57 copies.

Do you think there is any truth in that?

BTW, welcome to HR.com.



:cool:
 
Re: Reality of the internet

David Artis, I've made freinds all over the world through the internet ... If politicians want war, I think we should let them fight it out instead.
 
Just read this tread for the first time.
For what its worth
1. Fletcher is indeed a good engineer.
2. Fletcher knows what sounds good, and what sounds like shit, and is not afraid to say so, even to his clients. Sometimes that might cost him a sale (and $$'2) but it also gains him a load of regular clients and friends in a world that cares only about $$'s
3. Fletcher values manufacturers who make good product and deal with resellers / clients straight.
4. If there were more guys like Fletcher around, the world would be a better and much funnier place.
5. So there.
:cool:
 
Fletcher, the "Hitler photo" caused so much psychological trama for me that the only antidote is...
Two tickets to "The Producers" sent post haste for purely cathartic
reasons only.
Or at least when I order next from Mercenary. :)

Seriously, your knowledgable contributions will be more than appreciated by more than yours truly.
Looking forward to more unadulterated opinions too.

With all due respect to those that are sensitive to this type of humor, let's keep in mind the correlation between expressive freedom and restriction of it by fascist/communist/McCarthy (pick your 'ism) type policies. Besides, if we were that uptight we'd never get to see Charlie Sheen with duct tape across his mouth,
although the Visa commerical with his son in the video store cut it close in the humor department.

Chris
 
DJL,

I agree whole heartedly. I've got the scars from Vietnam to say I would rather have the big boys duke it out.

Unfortunately its the regular guys who have to do the dirty work to clean evil from the world.

I've got lots of friends I've met on the internet and having been lucky enough to have traveled the world have actually met a lot of them.

I wish it all were so simple we could just have internet wars. Now that might actually be cool (or Kewl - depending on your age).

Keep trying you never know.

David
 
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