thanks to all who have been sharing their taping results with these mics with the rest of us, member Shawn Smith and I are considering buying a set of cards together, since he likes to tape jazz and I like transparent sounding mics, and since these mics offer a nice transparent sound, remote cables, and interchangeable caps, they might be the final mics we own, so far between us we have covered 480's, 460's, C4's, 391's, 393's, mk41's, A51TL's, and mk4v's, V3, MiniMe, UA5, R4, and JK Labs custom preamp, I think we're both looking for the final solution to our taping needs, we'll see if Sennheiser's are the keepers soon