I've had my CAD M177 LDC for probably 8 or 9 years now, it's a great microphone and great service by CAD. I had purchased their lesser grade brand (global audio I think was the brand), it conked out and their service engineer walked me through a couple of checks on the internals. One of them was basically roughing up the surface where a ground strap wiped against the body of the mic. When one of these failed, he said something like: "It's not worth the shipping and my labor for you to send it to me" and the M-177 was on it's way to me as a replacement.

They have a nice drum mic kit that is priced very competitively as well.

-Scott

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