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Usually lot's of U87's for sale on the vintage mic market. Depends on how long you want to hold onto them.
A realistic selling price that would actually move them would be in the $2500 each range give or take a few hundred depnding on condition. There are others out there for sale for more money or 'retail' from vintage dealers but some have been around for quite a while. If it were me I would sell them individually and hope to get a little more each. I don't know how many people are looking specifically to get a same era pair of U87's. I don't have the Neumann timeline memorized but I thought the U87 wasn't introduced until the early 70s? Either way nobody buys a vintage mic unless its been authenticated, has a clean bill of health and some kind of approval period.
While the app needs to be open to NEUMANN U87 SERIAL NUMBER LOCATIONte and it lives in the dock rather than the taskbar, it is a very useful tool when open. Unfortunately, the NEUMANN U87 SERIAL NUMBER LOCATIONs all sound very digitized and lack any natural sound.
48-72 hours at a minimum. I used to work for a pretty hi-fi audio shop. We'd do escrow deals all the time for a modest fee and I couldn't even begin to tell ya'll stories of stuff that was said to be in 'great working order' and it plainly didn't sound or work correctly. Typical were 47's and FET47s with hammered capsules. Or a 77DX with a piece of tin foil in place of the ribbon element. Not that every piece was screwed up but probably 1/3 of what came in was off the mark. Buyer beware.
The only drawback is that an 87 is a transistor mic whereas 'vintage' for Neumann is usually used to describe tube mics. Nothing wrong with saying they are 'vintage,' just don't expect that same kind of pricing you will get for a Neumann tube mic just because these mics are old. And that is really old for a U-87 - which doesn't matter if they are in good shape, but could indicate they may not be. That is - unless someone here knows something about older U-87s I don't know. I have a U-67, so I am familiar with Neumann mics. Unless they have been verified by a real microphone expert to be in first rate condition, they aren't worth much (my opinion). Most likely the capsules need to be replaced (we owned 3 from about the same era).
Capsules age and wear out even if they aren't used a lot. 40 + year old capsules aren't what I want in a microphone. The one thing Neumann still does well is make capsules. Don't know what a new U-87 capsule costs, but I'm sure they aren't cheap. Ever look inside one?
Not much in there. Very few components. Even so, most likely, every component is too old. Drifted values or just plain shot.
Electronic components (resistors, capacitors etc) have a useable life span of maybe 20 years. About the only other thing of value is the body/housing and the maybe the transformer. There are better sounding new mics for way less money. Call Klaus Heyne-he will tell you what they are worth.
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Also call Bill Bradley at the Mic Shop. He can give you some info.
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