Topic: Budget ~$1500. What Mics?

[stevetoney]

Since he'll be running the V2 most all of the time I would shoot for something in the brighter category or something with a slight presence peak.  The V2 always seemed to have a flatter, somewhat closed in high end to my ears.  I'm thinking if he can come up with the Milabs on budget they would work VERY well in that combo.

It's so funny reading this and, to me, says so much about how personal sound interpretation actually is.  The reason I say this is because I've always experienced exactly the opposite with both the V2 and V3 as your comment.  I've owned two v2 and three V3's over the years and when I listen to a V2 source or V3 source for any length of time, while I like the high end detail, after awhile it starts to hurt my ears because my ears pick up so much high end emphasis.  So I always had to EQ out high end on my V2 or V3 sources to fit my taste. 

[yltfan]

Not actives, but for less than $1500, your friend could get some used AT 4051's and pick up a set of 53 hyper caps. I love mine.

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[F.O.Bean]

Since he'll be running the V2 most all of the time I would shoot for something in the brighter category or something with a slight presence peak.  The V2 always seemed to have a flatter, somewhat closed in high end to my ears.  I'm thinking if he can come up with the Milabs on budget they would work VERY well in that combo.

It's so funny reading this and, to me, says so much about how personal sound interpretation actually is.  The reason I say this is because I've always experienced exactly the opposite with both the V2 and V3 as your comment.  I've owned two v2 and three V3's over the years and when I listen to a V2 source or V3 source for any length of time, while I like the high end detail, after awhile it starts to hurt my ears because my ears pick up so much high end emphasis.  So I always had to EQ out high end on my V2 or V3 sources to fit my taste. 

Totally agree buddy Ive owned a few diff v2/v3s and I always found them to be grating in the highs. I even ran v3>ModSBM1>JB3 back in the day, and whil;e that helped, it didnt solve the issue. But that was with 480s, which I found to be bright too

I would like to give a v2 a try with my mk4s tho