The 740 mic did sound pretty awful. Big improvements on the 2K and 9k and of course the Pro. Even the 8K sounded good.
Maybe I'm in the minority thinking that it should matter to more of us. It seems like such a simple thing, making the mic in an XLR, but then they would have people griping about not having a 14" input, so they would have to have two. Now that's a novel idea.
I wonder why I don't get an SD1. It seems to have everything I want except multi-pads.
DonM