go with the 4s, i owned 41s for years and they mostly collected dust, if you need to use 41s your not in the right spot
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All things equal, MK4, mk22 or MK21 are going to sound better the VAST majority of the time.
For festival, club and arena taping, I disagree.
So you disagree...can you explain why?
I spent a lot of time FOB with cards/hypers making stellar tapes....I noticed the guys with the hypers at the back of the room were also making stellar tapes without the stress of crowd control or showing up 3 hours early.
And I mainly record FOB/DFC WITH my hypers[483>MBHO>Schoeps] and they sound KILLER there too
Seems like folks are afraid to run hypers in those great locations where everyone says to run cards/omnis, etc......... Thats where I think the mk41 REALLY SHINE, is when theyre FOB/DFC. Dont get me wrong, mk4/mk21/mk2 sound killer there too. But if someone wants to run mk41s FOB/DFC, then DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTT! They will contain less much chatter especially if you want or need to run your stand lower around head height
Search my LMA links under "diskobean" on everyone of my posts and search for my mk41 recordings. Just get the mk41s if you only have the $$$ for ONE set of capsules! And get a Tinybox with OUTPUT TRANSFORMERS and youll be thanking me later.
IMO, the Schoeps>Naiant sound is as top notch as you can get soundwise IMO. IMO that combo sounds just as good/better than ANY OTHER preamp combo out there, regardless of the costs
Hell, I like Both of my Littleboxes soundwise better than my old Sonosax[Lemo], and thats the god honest truth
Best of luck with your search, and DL a TON of my mk41>Lemosax/Naiant Littlebox sources on the LMA first, so you know exactly what sound youre getting into
Bean