"Karl Winkler" wrote in message roups.com...
Still is. I've heard recordings done with M49c microphones and modern
digital recording media and the results were sublime. The noise floor
was not an issue. I think if I had to pick one microphone for the
proverbial desert island, it would be the M49c.

Karl Winkler
Lectrosonics, Inc.
http://www.lectrosonics.com

You can hear it in the Brahms´Serenades conducted by Charles Mackerras
in the cd TELARC 80522, recorded by Tony Faulkner, who use two of them
in figure-8 only 20 cm. apart, with EAR tube pres and an old DDA
Interface console recording in high definition 176,4 kHz. This a array
created by Faulkner himself, and was very controversial in the circles
of classical music recording. But this CD is really sublime...I have
made some choral recording with this technique, but replacing the M49
with Equitek 300 (I have not acces to them); it sounded fine...
Tubarec