Ok so it seems to me that their are now now good powered hand mics on the market at all. The Astatic line of powered hand mics are now junk compared to the Older D104M6B, the RF Unlimted has noise issues in it's one mic that is not a toy with echo and other nonsense and even base mics are now ugly, do not perform well or are grossly overpriced!Cobra,Wilson,BarJan are all junk and have been for some time. I do not think Telex still makes anything useful if they are still around?
Heil is ok but it is a pain in the rear to buy one of their mic's then you have to buy a harness and butcher it sorry redesign it to work on 5 pin HR radios, 6 pin RCI's or 4 Pin Cobra. None of them are powered so that eliminates them on the spot.
I am not going to buy an Electro Voice RE20 and then install a PTT switch and a phantom power source for a mobile radio!
I remember time in the 1990's when finding a good power mic was not that hard to do. In fact I owned a Realistic Power mic that was fantastic for about 12 years of use. It was still electronically great other then the broken PTT switch I had repaired a few times.
I have been on google all day today looking for a really good sounding reasonably priced transistorized amplified hand mic. I can see it now I am going to end up with an Electrovoice RE-20, a tube preamp with phantom power, studio quality voice compressor with noise gate and eq and a foot opperated PTT that I can mount on the dead pedal next to my clutch pedal......I am joking by the way not going to go that route.....I might have to either buy an RF Unlimted Mic and figure out it's problem with noise or buy a D104M6B and figure out how to fix it so it sounds like the older ones.
It is just frustrating to see that even if you willing to pay for something you can not buy it because no one is selling it. Kind of like my desire for a small foot print RCI-2950DX can not buy what no one makes!
Not like I was expecting to get said mic for $19.95 or some insanely low price.
I now see why people over bid for stuff on ebay! You can not buy it new or used anyplace else! Why? No one is making it.
Heil is ok but it is a pain in the rear to buy one of their mic's then you have to buy a harness and butcher it sorry redesign it to work on 5 pin HR radios, 6 pin RCI's or 4 Pin Cobra. None of them are powered so that eliminates them on the spot.
I am not going to buy an Electro Voice RE20 and then install a PTT switch and a phantom power source for a mobile radio!
I remember time in the 1990's when finding a good power mic was not that hard to do. In fact I owned a Realistic Power mic that was fantastic for about 12 years of use. It was still electronically great other then the broken PTT switch I had repaired a few times.
I have been on google all day today looking for a really good sounding reasonably priced transistorized amplified hand mic. I can see it now I am going to end up with an Electrovoice RE-20, a tube preamp with phantom power, studio quality voice compressor with noise gate and eq and a foot opperated PTT that I can mount on the dead pedal next to my clutch pedal......I am joking by the way not going to go that route.....I might have to either buy an RF Unlimted Mic and figure out it's problem with noise or buy a D104M6B and figure out how to fix it so it sounds like the older ones.
It is just frustrating to see that even if you willing to pay for something you can not buy it because no one is selling it. Kind of like my desire for a small foot print RCI-2950DX can not buy what no one makes!
Not like I was expecting to get said mic for $19.95 or some insanely low price.
I now see why people over bid for stuff on ebay! You can not buy it new or used anyplace else! Why? No one is making it.