> There is no 'design'. Behringer (and others) will just put > in whatever the Chinese market has to offer this week. Heh, get out of my head :-) I once bought a handful of the cheapy Behringer ECM8000 microphones as part of sort of a craft project. Of the four mics, bought at the same time from the same store, they were four slightly different lengths (!). Upon opening them-- all four had different capsules and different PCBs with variants of the same basic driver circuit. Two were hand-soldered... badly; the hand-soldered plastic SMT caps were partly melted. Upon stripping the finish of the mic bodies (like I said, craft project), all four were different construction. One was brass and zinc, one was zinc, and two were aluminum. To be fair, all four worked passibly well, and all four had the part I was looking for. Monty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user