Sennheiser MD 441

The MD 441 has a supercardioid polar pattern, with a frequency response of 30 to 20,000 Hertz, sensitivity of 1.8 mV/Pa ±2 dB,[2] and Impedance of 200 Ohms.

[8] Four MD 441s are visible in Barbara Klemm's famous 1979 photo of the socialist fraternal kiss between Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

On December 19, 1989, Helmut Kohl spoke into an MD 441 in Dresden at his first major appearance after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen used an MD 441 in the film Brüno (2009) for his interview with Paula Abdul, in which both sit on the backs of kneeling men.

[11] In the 2010s, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping was often pictured with two black MD 441s at press conferences.