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lucid
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i am very confused!
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Mark H.
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Go to oktava.com and read the "about us" under the picture of Taylor Hohendahl. It pretty well explains the whole journey.
It doesn't explain why his prices don't seem like bargains, however, especially for those of us who have never heard any of his mics.
There's a really, really cheap medium format camera called the Kiev. You can buy it from any of half a dozen dealers, but quality control is a real crap shoot. However, there is one and only one dealer in Kiev cameras that charges twice as much as anyone else but makes sure that the camera you receive actually works.
I gather that the Sound Room is to Russian mics as Saul Kaminsky's Kiev/USA is to Ukrainian medium format cameras.
Does this help? (Or did you already know all this and were inquring about something else?)
Best wishes,
Mark H.
It doesn't explain why his prices don't seem like bargains, however, especially for those of us who have never heard any of his mics.
There's a really, really cheap medium format camera called the Kiev. You can buy it from any of half a dozen dealers, but quality control is a real crap shoot. However, there is one and only one dealer in Kiev cameras that charges twice as much as anyone else but makes sure that the camera you receive actually works.
I gather that the Sound Room is to Russian mics as Saul Kaminsky's Kiev/USA is to Ukrainian medium format cameras.
Does this help? (Or did you already know all this and were inquring about something else?)
Best wishes,
Mark H.
ausrock
Well-known member
Kiev?...... I didn't know they were still making those things. Used one once years ago and it's mechanism had a kick like a 12 gauge. The experience convinced me to buy a Bronica.
philboyd studge
New member
Sound room mics are bench tested and matched (if you buy pairs) and they stand behind what they sell. Oktava's from GC etc, are sort of a crap shoot, but I don't think quality control is as bad as we're led to believe. The big difference is price. I chose to get a pair of 012's from guitar center for $200 and I'm happy with them, but I went through the 27 they had at the time to find the pair that I liked. Of the 27 it was obvious some were returns, which makes me think some of the quality control problem is at the sales end of things.
