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Originally Posted by jim1960
But does it even matter? In the end, don't we buy a piece of gear because of how that piece of gear sounds rather than how the original piece of gear sounds? For example, I'm going to buy a Flea 47 at some point in the near future. I'm not buying it because of how good the mic it's supposedly copying sounds; I'm buying the Flea because of how the Flea sounds. There are at many other 47-ish mics out there, some for more money & some for less, but the Flea is the one that sounds best to me, so I'm going in that direction. Whether it accurately captures what a 47 sounded like in the 60s is irrelevant to me.
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In the end I think it does not really matter how close a "clone" sounds to an original vintage U47. And indeed it really only matters how it sounds .
Not only that , but I am led to understand that actual vintage U47's can sound slightly different from each other. Not to mention as Bob noted there are probably few if any vintage era mic's that have not had replacement parts installed.
Now I have had the opportunity one time, In a studio in Nashville to hear and sing through a Vintage U47 and it was indeed impressive ( I do not know if it had any replacement parts, but guessing odds are that it did)
However I would not purchase it even if were at a competitive to say the Flea or the Cathedral . To my mind I would rather get a new mic that uses modern parts and will likely perform for a much longer time before needing maintenance , than a vintage mic that will likely need maintenance much sooner.