At your risk.
A rough comparison of a condenser, moving coil, moving ribbon.
All mics used at 24in default, above head, mic axis 30 degrees from horizontal. towards nose.
Signal path:
mic - (Cinema Engineering 4031-B EQ or Pleiades (130 Ohm, 20mH) - SONY TC-D5 PRO - Sennheiser HD-580
SM58, C12A without a gentle slope low, mid low cut sounded very bass, mid bass heavy . M260.80 had not been tried yet.
With Cinema Eng. 4031-B at -12dB at 100Hz (it starts rolling of at around 1 or more KHz), +4dB at 10KHz, sound was very nice, like a produced great vocal recording.
With Pleiades (130 ohms,20mH), very nice too but a bit more bass heavy than with 4031-B. (Frequency response measurement was made, plus further listening tests, with both headphones and Celestion Ditton 150 speaker plus resistor, inductor boxes in order to make the Pleiades filter sound as good as the Cinema Eng. EQ, see recent posts including Pleiades (74 ohm, 25mH)).
In general the dynamic mic sounded more focused, the condenser maybe more polished but maybe a bit artificial.
The ribbon sounded great with true detail but it is very hard to further comment as the signal was too low, since all mics were directly driving the Cinema Eng. Program Equalizer, without a pre or mic booster between the two.
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