Inexpensive dynamic microphones with Pleiades (R,L) filter

They sound great.


The Philips N8 207/00 with its AKG? capsule
Much variation between specimens.
The black version sounded of less bandwidth than the brown ones but perhaps closer to the neutrality of the AKG D190.


The Philips EL 1979 with its AKG? capsule great too.


Without the Pleiades filter they sound almost unbearable but with the Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) they sound world class.
Bass and mid heaviness is gone forever.
There is still some upper mid resonance on these mics but the Shure Unidyne III 545 does the same although it may sound even more focused and possibly better.


The AKG D190 sounds the most neutral and flat frequency response with the Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) gentle slope low cut or high pass filter.


All these mics give very high output on Sony TC-D5 Pro. Ironically the 545 gave the less output. This is possibly because most of these mics are 600Ω output impedance.


The AKG D190 is very high output. Amazing mic.