thanks...
ouch, those are expensive. how do they sound?
To my ears it sounds clean. Just like at853's with no/little distortion(I can't hear any). My senns sound nice too but I have not used them with any other device or not heard anybody elses tapes with these mics.
If you don't want to pay for one of these but are having the distortion problems with the at853's then you may be better off with the 4.7k resistor mic mod.
Both will reduce the distortion, but only one will power the mics properly and lower the noise floor but on the other hand like you said you have to pay for it.