As I've said on the main page, any mention of a
product manufacturer or supplier has been made by me without regard to
compensation for that mention (it's not as if the meager traffic count to
these pages would convince some supplier to go "oooh, we should give him one
of our $1,000 microphones so that he can talk it up"). I've been slowly
acquiring my equipment since the late 1950s ... a lot of it is older than
the page readers. "New" stuff is added the old fashion way — we buy it
used on Ebay (that is, when we've got the spare $$$ to buy it — not
likely in the current economy).