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I was coincidentally mentioning this to someone else today, who might end up reading this again…But it has always stuck out to my eye that early on Neumann seemed to always put some silk or mesh around the outer circumference of the M7, presumably to separate the front from the back…for “reasons”. You can look at early M7 heads, early U47 trapezoidal capsule mount, and see this. I would guess it is to break up reflections and/or to influence the way sound waves travel front to back/back to front. I have also noticed that Neumann lollipop heads that were omni would never have that, iirc. I can’t remember what they did with the figure 8 heads though.They seem to have given it up around the time M49/M50 debuted.
I was coincidentally mentioning this to someone else today, who might end up reading this again…
But it has always stuck out to my eye that early on Neumann seemed to always put some silk or mesh around the outer circumference of the M7, presumably to separate the front from the back…for “reasons”. You can look at early M7 heads, early U47 trapezoidal capsule mount, and see this. I would guess it is to break up reflections and/or to influence the way sound waves travel front to back/back to front. I have also noticed that Neumann lollipop heads that were omni would never have that, iirc. I can’t remember what they did with the figure 8 heads though.
They seem to have given it up around the time M49/M50 debuted.
