[geoff]

On 21/03/2019 12:03 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
the real thing from a legitimate distributor, and dropped them when the
line when t


It was a little more complicated than that.

Those China MC012s were commissioned by the UK distributor for Oktava
who , rightly or wrongly, asserted that they has rights to do that. Even
the label on the mics said "MC012 by ASM" or something like that to
differentiate from the Russia ones which were, at the time, of extremely
variable quality.

geoff