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Octava microphones, the real ones from Russia, were on display at their own booth, Octava GmbH.

the German firm seems to be 'going for the gold', promising strict quality control, and better customer support, and prompt capable technical service.

The 100 series now includes swivles, pads, and roll off filters plus active cables, and large diaphram capsules, and even a tube version of the 100 series preamp...

AKG is showing their new digital wireless microphone line ("all digital / pure digital") the 700 series which features 150 mHz tracking bandwidth, and Shure has added 944 MHz systems and accessories to its wireless lines. At all of manufacturers' booths, the software available with all the wireless systems is expponentially better than ever...

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" The AKG system appears to have only rack mount/ac powered receivers. "

and network-able

that is where the $$$ is!!

NAMM is a music Industry show...

Lectrosonics had live performances in their booth with all vocals and instruments using 400 series wireless.(lots of booths had artists, endorsements are big in MI) Peter Frampton was at both Sennheiser and Heil, Weird Al was at both ROSS/Edirol/Korg and EV...

for SWAG, they had guitar picks that say: "Companding" inside the red negative indicator circle w/line across... they were also showing the MI system, and emphasizing it for even 5 string Bass guitars, they also had their measurement system, and lots of accessories for musicians (input and output cords, etc.  for the SM TX's they have a new clip which is more like the old clamp clip than the  slimmer wire clip...  the booth was quite busy.

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  • 3 weeks later...

FYI: Octava (Genuine, Russian!): www.oktava-online.com

The manufacturer of Oktava microphones - Joint Stock Company "Oktava" (JSC Oktava, Russian federation / Tula) - confirms that the Oktava-online firm (private firm Natalia Kuzmenko) is an official representative and/or authorized dealer of JSC "Oktava". All the products/items, presented on the websites www.oktava-online.de and http://stores.ebay.de/Oktava-online, are the genuine products of JSC "Oktava.

Because of numerous violations of contract terms by the "Oktava Ltd " company (Great Britain), and unlawful usage of our trade-mark of microphones manufacturer, JSC "Oktava" declares that by official notice dated October 13, 2004, "Oktava Ltd" company is deprived of rights of exclusive distributor all over the world.

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