It was in an email to me personally, when I was asking him if he could modify it, like he does to the u87s. Its not on his forum , as far as I know. I just thought it was funny for him to say that when many others love the mic. Maybe its because he cant mod it?I might still have it in my email. (Yahoo expunges yearly, so I dont know) I disagree. But then again, I'm biased.
Bill Bradley thinks they're very nice mics (considering they're not old tube mics!) At least that's what he told me on the phone last week. Maybe he was just being nice?
I read Klaus forums religiously. Klaus hates the u89, and calls it a "dog" of a mic. Oh well
I've not seen this anywhere on his forum. Can you provide a link? I'm wondering in what context he would say this.
Interesting. I've noticed several respected opinions on the Neumann pinboard referring to a lack of modification capability for the U89 circuit. One person even wrote "it's not possible to upgrade perfection" or something similar, but I'm pretty sure that was a Neumann employee! It would not surprise me at all if his comment is based on the fact that there's not really much he can do to upgrade the mic. It would be hard for me to believe that to be the case though. I've never heard of a mic that was so well designed it couldn't be upgraded in some way.
Maybe I'll drop him a line and get his opinion on the U89 as well. There is definitely a scarcity of information on line with regard to this mic, something I find very surprising considering it has been around for 26+ years...
Dirk