“Testing initially with the spoken voice, and it’s the mid-range that grabs your attention first. There’s detail and clarity here, and the very slightest hint of “edge” to consonants that’s immediately quite appealing. Despite this, it never seems to tend towards harshness or hardness – in fact the top end sounds relatively restrained and open….

“With sung (female) vocals, again, there’s something immediately very arresting about the sound – it’s forward without sounding hyped in the highs, but never sounds closed-in as a result…

“…it isn’t aiming to be the cheapest tube microphone out there. Sonically, though, it sounds in completely different league to those cheaper designs, and it would give more established (and expensive) models a real run for their money.”