Well I've finally found a mic that I love, meaning the Peluso's I've been running for the last month, and now apparently I have one of the bad sets. One mic at Phil and Friends in Denver started to spike levels with intermittent distotion in the second set. I called Soundpure where I got them and Dan, who is VERY helpful, said that all the cemc6s are considered bad for now and they are working on the problem but don't expect to have a solution for 3 weeks or so. Apparently they thought it was a bad ground, then some soderless resistors, and now they think it might be the caps themselves. This really sucks because I've got shows to tape. I've run Scheops, MBHOs, Earthworks, LSD2 and these Peluso's are by far the first set of mics that I've really fallen in love with and now there is a problem. Soundpure is offering 100% credit towards an exchange for a different brand of mics or I can hold out until they get this situation straightend out. It's shitty because the only mics that I can think of that would be worth exchanging for would be way over twice as much, i.e., Gefell m200s, or m300s. A word of caution to anyone looking to buy a set, they sound incredible but I would wait until they figure out what the hell is wrong with them. Right now I'm trying to decide whether I should wait or go with something else.