The Luke Audio LA-8 capsule is a modern redesign of the legendary K87 center terminated capsule found in the U87.

Each capsule backplate is precision machined and hand lapped to extremely tight tolerances then sent to the Luke Audio “Clean Room” to build. In the “Clean Room” each diaphragm is made by stretching a piece of 1 Micron thin Mylar and coating it with a layer of pure Platinum via our state of the art Cressington sputter coater machine. Each capsule is meticulously assembled, tested through a vigorous and time consuming process, and fine tuned to ensure each capsule of a given type is exactly the same as every other one produced by Luke Audio. The Capsule is the most important part of the microphone. It is the head of the chain and the transducer that physically interacts and captures the movement of air from the source material. If the capsule is not the absolute best then you must compensate for the below par capsule in the construction of the circuitry or furthermore with EQ, therefore loosing some of the life and reality that is present with a “perfect capsule”. At Luke Audio we pride ourselves on building only the “perfect capsule”.

- 1 Micron Mylar- Electrically Isolated backplates- Platinum sputtered- Hand-built- Precision-tuned- Center terminated- Dual diaphragms (multi-pattern capable)- No mounting hardware or saddle included- Free installation and tuning if desired