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Post by mrholmes on Dec 10, 2017 15:54:49 GMT -6
RGOs.
Got a great local offer on a MD 421 N for 180 bucks orginal old grey one.
But something is crazy.
There are 3 LEDs mounted in the grill on the middle steel frame.
The seller claims this was a gemran broadcast version without the Sennehiser Logo?
Does anybody knows if this story holds true?
If it is true, why the hell German BSS wanted to have three LEDs in it?
Cheers.
Holmes
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Post by svart on Dec 10, 2017 16:15:08 GMT -6
They didn't have LEDs when the old gray ones came out..
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Post by johneppstein on Dec 10, 2017 22:38:20 GMT -6
RGOs. Got a great local offer on a MD 421 N for 180 bucks orginal old grey one. But something is crazy. There are 3 LEDs mounted in the grill on the middle steel frame. The seller claims this was a gemran broadcast version without the Sennehiser Logo? Does anybody knows if this story holds true? If it is true, why the hell German BSS wanted to have three LEDs in it? Cheers. Holmes Svart is absolutely correct. Something smells fishy here. |
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Post by massivemastering on Dec 10, 2017 23:21:53 GMT -6
I could certainly see a broadcaster mod for standby / program / live and what not, but AFAIK, there was never a model introduced with LED's.
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Post by Ward on Dec 11, 2017 7:14:29 GMT -6
LEDs weren't even around when the original MD421 came out, itself a bass variable roll-off modded version of the MD21
I wouldn't go as far as to say they didn't exist, but for all practical purposes they pretty much did NOT exist. And their cost would have been sky high.
Chances are, it was a mod done in the 80s or 90s
And thus the value is perhaps severely diminished
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Post by ericn on Dec 11, 2017 7:34:04 GMT -6
I'm betting the seller used to sel used cars!
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Post by mrholmes on Dec 11, 2017 8:22:33 GMT -6
LEDs weren't even around when the original MD421 came out, itself a bass variable roll-off modded version of the MD21 LEDS are there since 1962! |
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Post by svart on Dec 11, 2017 10:31:24 GMT -6
LEDs weren't even around when the original MD421 came out, itself a bass variable roll-off modded version of the MD21 LEDS are there since 1962! Red LEDs only, at a high cost. Cost efficient LEDs weren't available until the mid 1970's. |
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Post by mrholmes on Dec 11, 2017 13:28:58 GMT -6
LEDS are there since 1962! Red LEDs only, at a high cost. Cost efficient LEDs weren't available until the mid 1970's. I wont buy it anyway looks ugly as hell....  |
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Post by johneppstein on Dec 11, 2017 15:26:54 GMT -6
LEDs weren't even around when the original MD421 came out, itself a bass variable roll-off modded version of the MD21 LEDS are there since 1962! They were generally experimental, expensive, and unreliable. And red. Only red (and infrared.) And not very bright. Leds suitable for indicators and readouts became practical and affordable in the early '70s, but output was till quite low. |
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Post by c0rtland on Dec 11, 2017 17:51:04 GMT -6
That's weird and ugly. Bizarre.
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Post by Ward on Dec 12, 2017 13:29:16 GMT -6
Red LEDs only, at a high cost. Cost efficient LEDs weren't available until the mid 1970's. I wont buy it anyway looks ugly as hell.... |
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