mdc wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:18 pm (guessing it's the TGV90R ?)

I think so - the stronger proximity effect might be the biggest difference to the M500. As the M500, the TGV90R doesn't fit every source and it's not a "dark" ribbon, except if you get right up to the grille.

I had a few M500s and used them for a number of things. They were the weapon of choice in the upper end of live vocal mics back in the 70s, where you regularly saw ABBA with them on stages. Legend has it that Frank Sinatra liked it for singing live as well. A) as somebody else said: shelve 10khz, wh...

Hi, i am the guy mentioned in post # 31, who sold two M380 clones to danielruder (post # 33). The whole thing started nearly ten years ago when Greg Norman wrote me a message on the old electrical forum for some spare parts, which i could supply. After having given up on the topic of old headphone d...