Nick, that eBay auction is offering the entry-level version of this microphone with the "stock" transformers, not the higher-quality Lundahls, at full list price.
According to the graphs on Cascade's Web site, this microphone only reaches about 7 kHz before it starts rolling off. That's less bandwidth than modern AM radio has. It'd be very nice for nostalgic special effects; the saxophone examples on the Web site have sharp imaging thanks to the Blumlein setup, but the tone is like old-time radio (maybe updated a little).
With professional quality ribbon microphones you can get flat response beyond 10 kHz--Royer SF-12s, for example, are flat to 11 kHz and continue putting out useful signal for another half-octave almost. The difference is clear even to my tired old ears.
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