Hi gang!
Yes, please go to
www.adkmic.com/forum for Qs. like this.
OK, we're basically keeping an entry level SD that will have cardioid and omni caps but we simply can't make it very quiet at this low price, which is the main complaint I've had. They sound OK, really good when you look at the price, and make very decent OH mics. They're a bit noisy for distant mic'ing of soft sources. They do sound a bit bright and light, or clear and clean depending on how you look at it.
We'll have a better SD at some point, but folks are expecting very low prices these days.
We'll definitely have a quite nice SD in the next years, but it won't be cheap. Might be tube too.
I've recently tried some competitors SDs, some sharing the capsule we use in our SDs, and I can't say that they were better...
Of course, when you put those "affordable" SDs next to a nice KM84, Tele M600 or even a good C451... they're all a bit... weak!
JP