Above: Belden 8411, 8422, and 8412 microphone cable. I still use Belden 9451 for most studio hard-wiring tasks, although I have to admit that I am very devoted to Canare StarQuad for actual mic cables. Anyone out there prefer Belden mic cable to the Canare?
Above: The Altec 680A omni dynamic. This one looks very strange. I am very curious to know what it sounds like. Anyone?
The Altec M20 condensor microphone. These seem to still be is use in studios. I hope I turn up one of them soon… folks seem to like them a lot.
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Steve Lampen from Belden is the guy you want to talk to about anything to do with cable or wire. He wrote some really good articles for Radio World a few years back that should be in far wider circ than they are and if you could get authority to reprint them you’d be doing a big service.
Steve Lampen’s articles are online:
http://www.rwonline.com/section/wired-for-sound/37/page/1
Many or all of the various “about cable” columns are there.
I sure would love to find a reel of 8411. I use this for instrumentation interconnect cables and for this use – it is fantastic.