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Originally Posted by Brent Hahn
Basically, when people recorded to tape, the knock on the KM84 was that it wasn't bright enough. You could get the brighter AKG C451 for less money.
So Neumann killed off the 84 and replaced it with the 184. They designed it to be brighter, and kept the cost down by eliminating the transformer. But they did it just in time for people to make the shift to digital, where people wanted warm, not bright. Oops.
All things being equal, I'd take the 84 over the 184, but they're not all that different. And all things aren't equal -- 84's are rare and pricy.
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They also kept the cost down by not making it a "system mic" as different capsules cannot be swapped on and off the barrel like the km84. One had to pay more for the km140 to get that feature.