Its one early version at least to note a bit. Outside the no-humbucking coil and the humbucking coil there's not a lot of difference seen.
Looking at the newer SM7b's I have there are good improvements imo, over the original ones.
1.Putting the XLR in the front seems to be popular (which can be done with any model of these)
2.The mic stand is now a Phillips/cross screw instead of this old weird square screw.
Seems most everything is still to the same spec/design and interchangeable from old to current. Some decal/label changes, nothing important.
As with old vs new in sound? gets crazy....the capsules and magnets etc, and age seems to be the "sound" difference debated forevermore. For gear collectors the old ones will go up in value
Shure has a number for the tiny screws pn 30D443E but they don't seem to sell them. Not much info on them I could find. But then another Shure Product seemed to have used the screw p/n and there were details its M25, and that's a o.08 size! 80 thousandths of an inch, so many people seem to lose them. To be honest 2qty hold the back plate/EQ plate fine but 4qty is the full set. I found that interesting as I need to order some. $7 for 10 of them or something.
UPDATE: Seems the tiny tiny backplate screws are technically called "2-56 x 5/16" , ( .086 dia x .31x Long ), the ones I got were too short in length so don't buy the 1/8/.11.
I also found the XLR shield wire intentionally not connected, with the black and clear wire going to the mic PCB. Because the pin 1 is connected to the case of the SM7, shield wire. There is a fine wire jumper from Pin1 to case ground. Inside the mic there's no green wire from the XLR. Anyway the old one works and noise was identical to my new SM7b.
In the picture it shows only black and clear going into the mic body and the XLR shows the pin 1 green with heat shrink on it? wierd. It works fine!
