I voted for gefell M21. Which is what I have now. I'm not voting that way to rationalize my current ownership, I currently own the ones I like after trying a bunch of other choices.
I had AKG483's for a couple of years. When the room sucks they will cut through the mud like nothing else. But that sizzle is fatiguing to listen to, and that's something I couldn't get over.
I've never owned MK41's or 41V's, and they might get my vote in some situations, and if cost was no issue. I have a pair of vintage MK241's right now, which are the predecessor to the mk41's. I like them, I'm just not sure I like them better than the Gefells. My MK241's aren't as well matched as my Gefells, and that probably has a lot do with it.
I had Earthworks Z30XL hypers for a while and ran them a lot. Sometimes they were absolutely fantastic.
http://archive.org/details/gptn2008-06-27.earthworks.flac16fOther times they were thin. It was kind of hit-or-miss and I moved on eventually.
I picked up the Gefell hypers in a trade a couple of years ago (for my 414's that I wasn't using much) and I've fallen in love with them. Smooooth. They are "half way between the brightness of the AKG's and the fatness of the Schoeps" which to my ear is just about right. They seem to emphasize the high end detail a little but it's not fatiguing. The fact that I got a set of caps AND bodies for the price of Schoeps caps alone is icing on the cake.
I like TL's with hyper mode too, but they aren't my favorite choice. LD's have a ton of off axis coloration, by which I mean they don't reject the boomy low frequencies coming in from the side as well as most SD's, so they won't cut through the mud in a boomy room as well as SD's (listen to this)
http://archive.org/details/matisyahu2010-12-09.adktl.flac16fBut they are certainly more flexible in general. TL's are perhaps my favorite mics, just not my favorite hypers.