"Ian Bell"
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>> Mic pre design is a complex trade off. There is no perfect design,
>> that's why there are so many.
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> ** This is an unsupported opinion typical of a " sound engineer ".
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> Mostly, these dudes live a fantasy world of their own invention.
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> It sure as hell ain't the real world.
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> And they do not deal in fact.
Indeed. Some rare sense from Phil here.
My take, the proliferation of designs is simple a meme replication and variation for its own replication advantage, like as in religion. There is no basis in ether as to any superiority, they just multiply as as does any other virus bcause thats what they do.