TLM 102

Funny, I think the TLM-102 is underrated. Honestly really great mic for the price and incredibly convenient since it is super tiny and has a built-in pop-filter. I've compared mine back to back with my U87 Ai with the same high end Neve style preamps. I found the 102 to be a worthy opponent despite being a third of the price.

I think it's great, it's on a whole other level than the TLM 102. The 102 is still great and very useable though. Mine paid for itself many times over.

I don’t have good knowledge of mics internals but I own a Tlm 102 I upgraded from the rode nt1a and I’m not gonna lie I really don’t like the 102 sound it sounds thin / too bright for my voice (preferred my rode) so I’m thinking of selling it, I noticed your saying things like fet47 and km86s etc if you don’t mind could you please educate me? And also if possible could you recommend a good mic for 500? I don’t care if it’s a clone (I don’t know about capsules but I hear people saying there are different ones) and I’ve seen on a topic before people recommending a clone mic because it had a “good capsule” i forgot what it was called tho unfortunately.

I got mine for 200, sounds good even without professing

I love my tlm 102

Yeah me personally, I think it kinda sounds like a tlm-102 but worse. Considering that 103 is actually more expensive it's mind blowing.

Hey I'm not trying to offend anyone. Okay maybe it's not actually mid-scooped. But I do wanna add tlm-102 was the mic that I used as a main mic for the longest time. I was always not happy with the mid information on that mic. To my subjective ears (and ears don't recognize objectively flat frequencies as flat), it lacked midrange, and had a bit too much air frequencies to my taste.