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Title: Audio-Technica 8471 Isolation Mount (alt to Shure A53M ?)
Post by: Javier Cinakowski on February 15, 2008, 10:23:11 PM
I just ordered a set of these. 

The Shure donuts are too easy to destroy for a guy like me.  The rubber breaks just like a condom if you are not careful!
 ;)

Anyone use these AT's?

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=ProductDetail&A=showItemLargeImage&Q=&sku=352412&is=REG
(http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/largeimages/352412.jpg)
Title: Re: Audio-Technica 8471 Isolation Mount (alt to Shure A53M ?)
Post by: DSatz on February 15, 2008, 11:35:42 PM
What are you doing to those poor Shure A53Ms? Whatever it is, I hope it's not too much like the way condoms are mainly used.

I have some (Shure shock mounts, that is--not condoms) that I've used for 20+ years without damage--never thought of them as fragile before.

--best regards

P.S.: I have to say, I can't see how the shock mount in the picture would give more than a token amount of isolation from vibrations.
Title: Re: Audio-Technica 8471 Isolation Mount (alt to Shure A53M ?)
Post by: Javier Cinakowski on February 15, 2008, 11:46:56 PM

What are you doing to those poor Shure A53Ms? Whatever it is, I hope it's not too much like the way condoms are mainly used.
I have some (Shure shock mounts, that is--not condoms) that I've used for 20+ years without damage--never thought of them as fragile before.


Well, jamming my mics in there doesn't seem to work very well  :-\

P.S.: I have to say, I can't see how the shock mount in the picture would give more than a token amount of isolation from vibrations.

from the picture I agree.  I read a review that said the top peice is a tpye of rubber that works well.  ?
Title: Re: Audio-Technica 8471 Isolation Mount (alt to Shure A53M ?)
Post by: Jonathan Starr on February 16, 2008, 02:50:43 PM
Please give us a review of how they work  ...  with microphones!

 ;D

Aloha,

Jonathan
Title: Re: Audio-Technica 8471 Isolation Mount (alt to Shure A53M ?)
Post by: boojum on February 16, 2008, 02:58:35 PM
Man, I shudder to think of how you are using the condoms.  ;)   My Shure mounts impress me as rugged.  I rely on them for my Schoeps cards and they have never impressed me as delicate.  Your post raises a whole lot of questions best addressed in another forum.   8)