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MICROPHONE INFO  (18)
For both Ham Radio peeps and mere humans, the ARRL has a beautiful 196 page PDF publication titled "Vintage Radio" ( 57 Mb  )   with a nice microphone story starting on Page 2-21.
FCC Ruling about wireless microphones  (this page is occasionally updated)
Here is a take from the TV industry:
www.tvtechnology.com/news/fcc-exploring-new-wireless-mic-technology
The RF bizness either was a mess, is a mess, or is going to be a mess, depending on your perspective. Here is a rather refreshing take on the situation from ProSound Web.
https://www.prosoundweb.com/real-world-gear-wireless-microphone-systems-2/
Here is another refreshing article:
https://www.prosoundweb.com/the-rf-game-has-changed-rapid-ongoing-challenges-with-wireless-systems-and-what-to-do-about-them/
The Coutant site is now reopened
Diffusion Magazine historical article  
In Spanish, but you MAY be able to translate using the Chrome or
preferably the Vivaldi browser.
Ekkehart Williams Antiques
Parabolic Mic group on Facebook
Be aware that you cannot visit a FB page unless you are signed in.
Recording Hacks   (A nice site but PLEASE be aware that since they have NOT invested in the HTTPS certificate (or updated it) modern browsers will report "your connection is not private or secure". You MIGHT try a so-called "private" browsing page in the same or different browser. Sometimes after a few attempts the browser eventually allows you to get there. Confusing and ridiculous: such is the price of greed and false security, and the peeping tom mentality. YMMV.
RCA Genealogy
RCA Replicas
Vintage Mics Germany
Western Historic Radio / Mic museum
Tape Op Magazine MIC Articles
MicrophoneRepair.com
audiotestkitchen.com   Here is a FASCINATING page where you can presumably A/B microphones in an app which runs in your browser.
If you are REALLY DIY crazy have some fun with this!
www.instructables.com/OPA-Based-Alice-Microphones-a-Cardioid-and-a-Figur/

ALPHABETIC LISTING OF MICROPHONE
MANUFACTURERS STARTS HERE  (213)

Two hundred and thirteen and counting!!! Whuda thunk?

12 Gauge
512 Audio
3DIO binaural mic
Acacia
ACO Pacific
ADK
Advanced Audio Microphones
AEA (Wes Dooley)
AKG  (Harman)
Alctron
Antelope Audio
Apex
Apogee
Applied Microphone Technology
ART Applied Research & Technology
Aspen Pittman
Astatic (now part of CAD Audio)
Aston  a winner of the 2020 35th NAMM Tec Award
Audeze
audio-technica
Audix Jan 2022 acquired by Vitec
Austrian Audio
Avantone
Avenson Audio
Avlex
Azden
Bartlett Audio
B&K root  (laboratory mics) MICS HERE
BarbaricAmplification
BeesNees Pro Audio  (Australia)
Behringer Just a TERRIBLE website. You'll have to find the mics yourself. Some are quite nice.
Berliner
Beyerdynamic
Bing Carbon Audio  (yes, carbon mics from old telephones)
BSA-microphones   (Switzerland)
BLUE   Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics  (now owned by Logitech)
Bock Audio
Bonaok  (don't knock it if you haven't tried it!!!)
Brauner  updated link
Brahma  (ambisonic)
Burg
CAD
Cascade
Cathredal Pipes   beautiful - don't miss !
Chameleon Labs
Charter Oak Acoustic Devices   
Cloud
Coles (UK)
Copperphone from Placid Audio
Core Sound   (Binaural / Ambisonic / Spatial Recording)
Countryman
Crowley and Tripp (Soundwave Research) acquired by Shure in 2009
CROWN Microphones -  now handled by AKG
DIY audio components - ribbon parts
DPA  ...which used to be Brüel & Kjær
Dr Alien Smith   unusual stuff !
Earthworks
Ear Trumpet Labs  Like a steampunk Astatic D104...
Ehrlund  (Sweden)
ElectroVoice
Elgato
Enak  microphones AND repair service.
Equation Audio
Extinct Audio   (the name...go figure...)
FiFine
FLEA  be aware not https. Newer browsers might block.
Fostex
Fox Audio Research  
Gauge
Golden Age Project
Gold Line microphones   website root HERE
Hamptone
Hebden Sound  
Heil
Heiserman Audio
HHB see the FlashMic here
HME (wireless mics)
Horch (Germany)
InnerTube Audio  American sweatshop meets Maglight billy club. Enjoy.
Holophone  (for Surround)
IsoVox
JLab
JOBY

JoeMeek

Josephson Engineering  
JZ Microphones
KEL Audio yet another company you never heard of
Kicktone  (Morton) (specific for recording kick drums)
Korby Audio Technologies
Lampifier
Lawsonmicrophones.com
Lauten Audio
Lectrosonics (wireless mics and more)
Lewitt  (Austria)
Line Audio (Sweden)  NOTE: not https. Some browsers will report a problem.
Lucas (Compass Point Studios)
M-Audio
Mackie
Manley (ROOT) pro mics HERE
Maono
Mercenary Audio
Mesanovic
www.mbho.de
MCA Microphones division of Marshall Electronics / Mogami wire
Microphone Madness   Go Figure.
Microphone-parts.com   NEW !
Microtech Gefell  (subsidiary of Georg Nuemann KG)
MicShop.com
Mic-W  
Miktek Audio
Milab also Pearl Microphones
MiPro  (careful... a sloppily designed URL)
Mojave Audio
Monheim
Moon Mic from Vintage Loop
Myburgh
MXL Microphones from Marshall Electronics
NADY  (From Nasty to Nady in 30 years!)
NEAT  (founders of BLUE mics; now part of Voyetra / Turtle Beach)
Nevaton
Neumann
Naiant
NoMoNo  Podcasting system from Norway
Ocean Way Audio Allen Sides fantastic contributions
Oktava
Pearlman
Peluso
Placid Audio
Point Source Audio
Presonus
Primo  OEM and parts.
RCA mics (vintage - historical reference)
ReMic  Denmark
Reynolds
RØDE  Australia and fantastic!
Roswell  (the um... best mic to use when recording aliens)
Royer
Rycote
Sage Electronics
Samar Audio Design
Samson  (URL updated)
Sandhill
Sanken  and SankenChromatic and in the US: Plus24.net
Schoeps
Scope Labs  pretty crazy and pretty cool.
SE (Sound Engineering) here: www.seelectronics.com and here:  www.fingerprintaudio.com  
Senal Sound
Sennheiser
Shiny Box
Shure
Signal Art
Silvia Classics   Oops... bit the dust...
Simpson
Skull Microphone   For all the goth lead singers out there.
Slate Digital  Modeling microphone(s)
Solomon  (bass)  also be aware this site continuously tracks
Sonic Presence / Western Electric  (yes, THAT Western Electric!)
Sonic Studios
Sonodore
www.sontronics.com UK based
Sony (vintage) and consumer moderne and PRO
Soundelux   and  SoundFieldUSA   (Spatial Recording)
Sound Performance Lab (SPL)  "Atmos"  (Spatial Recording)
Soyuz

SPCMIC   (Spatial Recording)
- also see -
Harpex.net   for software

Stager
Stedman
Stam
Sterling
Studio Projects
Synco Audio
Tab Funkenwerk & Atelier Magnetics
Tascam
TC Helicon  with BUILT-IN effects switches and HERE
TDK If you are a developer, you might like MEMS microphones
Telefunken USA  and telefunken-elektroakustik   and new goodies HERE
Telex
Telinga  (parabolic)
T.H.E. Audio  
Tonelux
Townsend Labs  a winner of the 2020 35th NAMM Tec Award. Now part of Universal Audio, below.
Tula
United Studio Tech
Universal Audio
Vanguard Audio Labs
Vintagetones.com
Violet Design Latvia site and USA site
VT (Voice Technogies) Switzerland
Vox-O-Rama  in German, so you need the Chrome browser or Vivaldi
Voyage Audio  Spatial Ambisonics Mic.
Warm Audio
Wunder Audio
Xaudia   from the UK !
Yamaha  (Unified Communications series)
ZOOM   microphones, recorders, and way more
ZYLIA  Immersive microphones and more
... and when you're finally tired of A-B-ing microphones, there's always this...  www.antarestech.com
so-called "Measurement MICS", and more  (16)
ACO Pacific
Audix
Behringer  The ECM8000 is HERE   YIKES what a TERRIBLE WEBSITE
BeyerDynamic  another sad website
B&K
dbx
Earthworks Measurement Mics
Infineon MEMS microphones  (the absolute cutting edge of technology. Not for mere humans.)
iSEMcon
Listen, Inc.  Equipment to test microphones themselves
nti
Presonus
Relevant comprehensive page at Performance Audio - lists many brands
SLS audio  system for testing In-Ear Monitors
Sonarworks
MIC Accessories, Stands, Holders, Windscreens, etc. (5)
Enhanced Audio
Phantom Mic Rider at Sabine  (warning - annoying frames)
Rycote Wind Shields
Stedman
BuyMicStands.com
...or visit your local music store...
AUDIO CLASSIFIED SITES  (13)
Interestingly, 11 of the previously listed sites have disappeared in the last 2 years
audioclassics.com
audiogon.com   and I wish they would be...
audiophile.org  From Turkey; English pages
audioreview.com
audiovideo101.com
The Broadcast Store   PROFESSIONAL ONLY
canuckaudiomart.com   go figure. Also see USAudioMart below
higherfi.com
HiFiShark
Marquette Audio Labs  pro
PlayItAgainAudio.com  Never anything there, but still, a nice concept...
www.soundbroker.com  PROFESSIONAL ONLY
USAudioMart
BOOKS  (10)
vincentverdult.nl/avbook
Vincent Verdult has written a fantastic and complex and thoroughly detailed book that you should have whether you are a studio, a 2-channel audiophile, or a Home Theater/Surround Sound enthusiast. VERY highly recommended.
Besides (the obvious) Amazon and BN, check out:
Greenbusch Bookstore
Opamp Labs and Opamp Labs Bookstore
MusicBooksPlus  (the old MIX Bookshelf)
The NAB Bookstore
ProSoundWeb Bookstore
SAMS !!!
EDUCATION / RESOURCES  (6)
All About Circuits
Audio Engineering Society Education Committee
Audio Education List at ProSoundNews
Mix Magazine Master List
ProStudioGear.com  a very comprehensive educational resource
Syn-Aud-Con
VIDEO, TV, Digital TV and HDTV  (5)
  digitaltelevision.com  and superb glossary HERE
  DVB.org
hdpictures.com Everything about HDTV and more!
reelgood.com  here buried on links page 6 is a fantastic resource: all your "streaming" (it isn't; it's serving...) services in one place.
More coming... watch this space!
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