Compare Mics

Although it's not really that helpful without being able to A/B them at will, this site lets you hear tons of different mics on instruments or voices they could be used with. Like a sensitive ribbon might only have samples for voice and acoustic guitar, but an SM57 will have drum and guitar samples too. I supposed you could download each sample you're interested in for quicker switching back and forth. Even so, it's pretty hard to really tell a lot without knowing what the rooms and instruments sound like in real life. But it's an interesting thing to do on a web site.