Everyone knows how people are talking about old, good sounding vintage mics which were built in the middle of 20th century. Still many today are impressed about the way how they were built and what sound they gave out.
When I made JZ Vintage mic I thought very much about internal design. How to build it – as vacuum tube or transistor mic? I know that almost all vintage mics are tube mics but for JZ Vintage series I decided to keep on working with transistor technologies as I did before with all JZ products including my favourite Black Hole series.
The reasons why I chose to built this microphone with Class A discrete electronics is my many years experience in developing exactly transistor circuit’s technology for microphones. As in the last 20 years electronics has been developing rapidly – there was a good chance to improve also technology of transistors (soundvise too) and the sounding of mics where transistor packed schematics were used got better with every day. By higher quality transistors and circuit schemes than it was available in the middle of 20th century it is now easier to achieve better sound results with transistor than tube mics.
As well it is almost not possible to find good tubes nowadays. Everyone who finds bunch of good tubes makes a lot of press from it. But basically it is something like discovering fossils of dead dinosaurs. And what to do if tube from your 7k USD mic goes dead? Buy another mic?!? 
I do not believe that tubes will get their second up-wave. Do you?
All transistors and circuits with discrete elements I have been using in my mics are carefully handcrafted and tested in my factory in Latvia reaching much lower self noise level than tube has. Transistors together with improved (Golden drops technology) capsules can provide also better sounding mics. Besides transistors has also longer usage time than tube, so that is also reason why I always provide 5 year warranty for all JZ mics.
