probably about a hundred or 150 w/power supply- I know they were 299 when they first came out (I bought one) but rode later dropped the price to 199- Another thing to consider is that the very first ones (the first year or so, 1998 I think?) had a great capsule which was changed when the priced dropped to a cheaper capsule- thus the first year or two were much better sounding than the later ones... I don't know how to tell which are which, though. I know that i bought a second one around 2000 and it was clearly inferior sounding.

Prepal is a site that shows the average price that gear has sold for on EBay. I am not sure how often it is updated.

http://www.prepal.com/data/Rode.htm

Ron

i could not find a difrance between the nt1 and nt1a also i coulnd find Neumann.