hmmm, this is a good thread. i just found a pair of old AKG 451eb mics with ck1 caps at work last week (i work in the multimedia services department at my school). and so apparently the music dept had just given them back to us or something. well they were ALL beat up like duct tape, glue, all this shit, so i took them home over the weekend and cleaned them up real nice and restored them to how they should look. i also did some tests on them with a pretty lame preamp and i was BLOWN away at how much better they sounded than my C4s and 853s ive got now. it was just so clear and natural, i could hear almost the same exact thing with headphones and without. i really liek those vintage mics and would love to pick up a pair. i tried to convince my boss to sell them to me but its against policy so...
so, anyways, ive been really interested in AKGs since then (that was my first experience with them lol) and ive been reading about the 451s and 460 and that will probably be the next set of mics i get. ill probably pair them with a Busman mod Ua5 which I hear is pretty similar to the T-mod that oade does.
i dunno, im gonna be running my 853s for DUMB this weekend so well see what happens...