WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight

In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for Condensator Mikrofon Verstärker, condenser microphone amplifier, and the number three hints at the least two prototypes that didn’t quite make it. The broadcasters who got their hands on the CMV 3 didn’t dw...