Purchased a few of these and some additional top crowns...
Cheaper than the Ultimate Support versions and they seem a little bit better constructed.
Fitted the lower halfs to 2 x overhead stands and my 2 x Valan stands and then the top crowns to 3 x 2 different shockmounts and they seem to do the job rather well supporting some quite heavy valve mics like NTK's and my old MKL5000 and enabling easy swapping of them between overhead or ordinary vertical stand.
And also 2 of these ....
While I'd love a Neve DPA1070, at over 2k, I can't really justify one for my home dicking about and since these have been getting some reasonable comments on Slutz and elsewhere, I took the plunge on 2 of the latest batch to appear on Evil.
I'll perhaps go down the route of changing the inductors at some stage to overcome the known criticism of the filtering on them, but when I get time to put them through their paces, I'll post an update on how they compare with my normal goto UA6176's and DAV's.
I'm not expecting full on Neve at this price, more an improved GAP73, which these will replace, but with integrated EQ, but a reasonably close approximation to the Neve sound will do my cloth ears. If all fails, I expect to employ them for providing an alternative bit of pre colouring instead of my two old Altec 1589B's which together with the GA's, I'll probably now sell.
