During developing B9audio series products, there're several possibilities:
1. Single one body design. Includes capsules, pre-stage, and XLR plug in a single body. Same as most microphones.
2. Inter-changeable, capsules as pure capsules. Pre-stage and XLR can be a single body, or the XLR can be separated by a cable (CMP1C) or by a low profile boom (BM xxx C).
3. Inter-changeable, capsules always built together with pre-stage. Such as MKH8000, or CCM, that the XLR part could be separated to insert optional module. Not a bad idea, since the electronics could be optimised and always low-impedance, and balanced.
Modern electronics technology makes it possibly to shrink down in some way, but not in the other, such as the true condenser capsules and XLR connectors. XLR maybe bulkier than modern connectors, but it is already an established standard that is so popular, and doesn't seem to be replaceable.
2 years after CMP1 announced, FSM series built upon CMP1C, a pre-stage that the XLR plug was separated from a single body. And this makes it possible to build a very flexible stereo microphone. No matter it is ORTF, XY, MS....
In this way, the user doesn't have to stock all kinds of microphones, instead, a single system that can be configured according to demand.
There will be some exciting new products coming out later, and it is so nice that name brands agreed to our point of view by releasing their new products.