Dan from Soundpure and John Peluso say two different things most of the time, it's hard to figure out who to believe, and really I don't think either of them is lying they just see this problem from a different point of view. John sees it as a minor problem easily fixed, Dan sees it as a major problem not easily fixed. If these mics didn't sound so damn good I would have ditched them long ago. Mine came back "fixed" as in not a totally reworked mic, at least from the outside appearance. Good thing is John has a quick turn around and is easy to work with. These mics do have a 3 year warranty and I'm sure the issues are fixed by now, mine seem to be fine. Dan's been saying for over a month that they will be ready next week, John says they are good to go
One thing I know, these may be my most favorite mics that I've taped with, not as detailed as my old mk4+cmc6, but a more pleasing overall quality for concert taping, to MY ears. Oh, and the issue in the first place was a combination of bad resistors/bad caps both caused by different things. The resistors came bad from the factory where the circuit boards were made, and the caps went bad due to humidity problems in John's shop. Both of these problems surfaced at the same time. Since the mics are new it doesn't surprise me that some unforseen problems crept up. I doubt these mics will stay at this price for too long once the problems are figured out. I'd really like to try some of the Peluso tubes out, they have had no problems with any other Peluso mic besides the cemc6 so that should tell you that it is a somewhat isolated incident.