Andy Simpson has been discussing his new microphone design over at REP. There are now photos up on his website which look interesting:

http://www.simpsonmicrophones.com

Intriguing. Has anyone there used one yet? I wonder how complex/fragile the construction is? I don't see any info on the website about response or SPL capability..?

the way they stress the time domain accuracy sounds somewhat simliar to the company earthworks. earthworks focuses on the fact that by making their designs dead accurate in the time domain, the result is an extremely flat frequency response. the concept of acoustic impedance matching, as noted on the simpson site, is new to me.

the wood grain is way cool looking, and the shape of these mics resemble HF horn drivers. very curious about how they sound. i wish the site had more info - specs, etc. it doesn't even tell us what the polar pattern is.

The samples sound pretty good ("rock/pop studio setting"), especially given that only 1 mic was used for the whole band. Very interesting stuff. Wish I was rich.

Why do those mics look CGI? And I can't get the sound samples to play. Looks bogus.

It looks like someone's SM57 went to the vet.

the sound files are impressive. but the single mic pop/rock sample file is stereo. if these microphones are stereo, why would you need 2 of them as in the chamber music files? fishy.

The file can be in stereo format without the source having been recorded in stereo. Did you check to see if both sides were the same ?

it is definitely not "double mono". instruments are "panned" in very distinct spatial locations.

Seriously, is this a joke???