Legend

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Georg Neumann

 

Reisz-microphone

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Erich Rickmann – Co-founder of the company

 

Capsules for the CMV 3

 

CMV 3 – The first condenser microphone (1928)

P. 4

Disc cutting machine, belt driven (in the 30’s)

 

Disc cutting machine, direct driven (in the 30’s)

 

Microphone test setup – Calibration of microphones with

 

pistonphone

 

Stability cells (1947)

P. 5

The first larger workshop of the company at the Brandenburgstrasse,

 

Berlin (about 1930)

 

Double diaphragm capsule of U 47 (1947)

 

U 47 – The first switchable pattern condenser microphone (1947)

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M 49 – The first remote-switchable microphone (1951)

 

Miniature microphone KM 53 (1953)

 

SM 2 – The first stereo microphone (1956)

 

Attenuation recorder P 2 (1934)

P. 7

Measuring microphone MM 2 (1949)

 

Large diaphragm microphone U 67 (1960)

 

Large diaphragm microphone U 87 A (1967)

P. 8

Small diaphragm microphone KM 84 (1966)

 

Vocalist microphone KMS 85 (1971)

 

Shotgun microphone KMR 81/82 (1978/1983)

 

Dummy head KU 80 (1973)

 

Dummy head KU 100 (1992)

P. 9

Mixing consoles at the theatre “Theater des Westens”, Berlin

 

Mixing consoles of the N 7000 series at the Berlin Philharmonic

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Microscope picture of record grooves

 

Disc cutting head SX 74

 

Complete tape-to-disk transfer equipment

 

DMM-disc cutting equipment

P. 11

The transformerless microphone TLM 170 R (“fet 100” series)

 

Hybrid circuit

Active capsules AK 40 and AK 20 of the KM 100 series (1988/1996) Spherical surface microphone KFM 100 (1992)

Boundary layer microphone GFM 132 (1990)

P. 14 Stereo-shotgun microphone RSM 191 (1988) Company’s headquarters in Charlottenstrasse, Berlin Company’s headquarters in Ollenhauerstrasse, Berlin

P. 15 Large diaphragm microphone TLM 193 (1993)

Miniature microphone KM 184 (1994)

TLM 103 – The “quietest” studio microphone (1997)

P. 16 M 147 Tube (1998)

Tec Award for the large diaphragm microphone M 149 Tube with

K47/49-capsule (1997)

P. 17 Technical Grammy (1999)

KK105 S Capsule head for Sennheiser Wireless Systems (2002)

KMS 105 Vocalist microphone (1999)

MIPA Awards for KMS 105 (2002) und SKM 5000 N/KK 105 S (2003/ 2004) vocalist microphones

P. 18 D-01 Digital microphone system Solution-D (2003)

M 149 Jubilee „Platinum Edition“ (2003)

P. 19 „Neumann – The Microphone Company“ Anniversary book (2003) Watershow und firework at Neumann 75 Years Event (2003) Broadcast microphone BCM 104 (2003)

P. 20 Capsule workshop – Mounting the diaphragms onto capsule body (1996)

P. 21 Microphone-lab – Mounting the gold-plated diaphragms onto electrodes (in the 50's)

Microphone-lab – Assembly of U 47 capsule heads (in the 50’s)

Microphone-lab – Static measurement of U 47/M 49 capsules (in the 50’s)

Measuring equipment for free-field microphone measurement (in the 50’s)

P. 22 Anechoic measuring room (1996)

Capsule workshop – Mounting the diaphragms onto capsule body (1996)

Capsule workshop – Assembling the capsule heads (1996) Capsule workshop – Equipment for static measurements (1996)

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