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…