I'm having a lot of fun with my new Josephson C700S microphone, and had an interesting experience yesterday taping a classical string quartet (the Brentano). I have taped about 2-3 dozen string quartets over the past 5 years in the same venue, usually using Blumlein stereo (with an AKG C426B) or a Jecklin disc (with Schoeps MK2S, Sanken K100s or Josephson C617s). Setting up the C700S yesterday I was monitoring only the X and Y channels using a Sonosax MiniR82 (headphone-out decoding the M/S signal, not the center omni) I noticed something "off" that I never heard with my other setups, namely that although the second violin and cello in the back seemed to be in roughly the correct place when I closed my eyes and tried to "see" the image with my ears, the first violin up front was off. It took me about a minute of worrying to realize that I sit two-three feet to the right of my stand, when I stood and moved over the imaging was perfect. The three feet never resulted in my discomfort with the imaging of other setups.
I saw David Josephson today at the AES meeting, he assures me that they have heard stories like this from other users. I'll be taping a baroque orchestral group next week, stereo imaging of the sound stage will be further tested. The imaging of this mic is SHARP, but I never realized I was dealing with blurry before.
Other AES: the folks at iZotope showed me some amazing reasons to upgrade from RX2 to RX2 Advanced. Also, Bruce Myers apparently left DPA US back in May, anyone know what happened there?
Jeff