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In Reply to: RE: who owns who? posted by cloudwalker on April 27, 2016 at 13:21:38
The "B&K" mentioned in the OP is not the same company as "Brüel & Kjær", which is commonly referred to as "B&K". Audio pros know this, but others often don't.
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Brüel & Kjaer also have spun off there recording/audio mic business as DPA (Danish Pro Audio) about 20 years ago.
Since then B&K is specialising in vibration and noise measurement for industry and science.
Yeah, their now-vintage 4133, 4135, etc. mics were pretty amazing. You may know that the Grateful Dead used B&K mics with John Curl's differential summing amps for vocals in the "wall of sound" PA system. I don't remember how or why the technology was sold (licensed?) to DPA, but I suspect that B&K just didn't want to get into the studio/concert hall microphone biz.
Then along came Earthworks, and there's as much, um, polarization among advocates of each as there is between the Capulets and the Montagues.
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As far as I remember DPA came about as a departmental management buy out.
B&K wanted to get rid of their regular mic business and a few employees bought that department.
DPA is still making some old 40xx series B&Ks .
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