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Title: Mics with "active" cables
Post by: Brian Skalinder on March 18, 2004, 06:39:39 PM
Mic manufacturers with "active" cables allowing you to run the mic caps remotely from the mic bodies, or very compact mics with tiny mic bodies:

Schoeps  (http://www.schoeps.de (http://www.schoeps.de))
CCM# Series, CMC# Series using MKx caps

DPA  (http://www.dpamicrophones.com (http://www.dpamicrophones.com))
402x Series

Neumann  (http://www.neumannusa.com (http://www.neumannusa.com))
KM100 Series using AKx caps

AKG  (http://www.akgusa.com (http://www.akgusa.com))
SE300B Blueline Series bodies with active cables (Part # MK 90/3 + H 98) using CKx caps
C460 bodies with active cables (Part # MK 46/16) using CK1X, CK2X, etc. caps

JK Labs  (http://www.geocities.com/jk_labs_info/index.html (http://www.geocities.com/jk_labs_info/index.html))
Makes phantom power / preamp boxes customized for many different mic capsules

MBHO  (http://www.mbho.de (http://www.mbho.de))
603A Series using KAx caps


Contributed by KC5:

the nbox also uses active cables with schoeps caps.

http://www.expression.edu/~acoluzzi/

Edit (Brian Skalinder): updated JK Labs URL per request from, well...JK Labs.