[Scott Dorsey]

geoff wrote:

Yeah - for the last 20 years or more they sound like being stung in the
ear by a wasp. But not as much as a C1000 !

Don't blame the mike for that. They were designed to be loaded by a
transformer input. Put them into a modern transformerless preamp and they
will ring like mad.

Paul Stamler's trick of adding a 600 ohm shunt resistor in a barrel connector
fixes the issue.
--scott
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