Anyone familiar with (partially) through hole Neumann KM184 (i.e. Rev 03)

[SubSpec]

Okay it's nothing too interesting here but I just can't find any other mentions of KM184's having ever been anything but fully SMT. Mine's not though, it does have a daughter board that is SMT but the main PCB is all through hole parts.

I'm mostly just curious because I went looking for other examples and the internet seems devoid of them. I'm guessing that is purely because nobody cares about the lowly KM184 enough to discuss anything except how much worse it is than the KM84. FWIW (i.e. nothing), I've not used any other KM184's but have used this one side-by-side with a couple KM84's and I didn't come away with the same impression as the rest of the internet.

Anyone else run across these? Any ideas on when they were produced? It obviously must have been early in their lifecycle because everything I see says SMT only.

 

[GeorgeToledo]

They changed it to SMT in the early 2000s.

The version you have has a little higher noise and lower current consumption than revised later spec.

 

[SubSpec]

They changed it to SMT in the early 2000s.

The version you have has a little higher noise and lower current consumption than revised later spec.

Awesome, thanks for that insight! I figured it was a simple answer, was just surprised I couldn't find anything about the change. Now the internet will have that answer