I have now spendt way to much time trying to get up to speed in the
data given by manufacturers of microphones to figure out what is good
and what is not, for natural sound. I am either missing a few
building blocks in my knowledge or we simply are not given the
information.
It seems to me:
1. Sensitivity of a condenser mic is only determined by the after
element electronics that determine how "hot" the output is and only
lets you know if you need another preamp that already exsists in all
condensers.
2. Self noise is not represented as a AC voltage within the audio
range by any manufacturer and therefore we have no tool to evaluate
the specs given.
3. db is a bad measure and should be tossed when comparing condensers.
It seems to me what we need is two AC sonographs of the audio
spectrum, at silence and when the sensitivity is brought to a
constant output voltage, such as a constant of say 20 mv/pa when
exposed to a white noise. The sonograph then needs a
voltage/frequency view both at the constant full white noise output
and at the silence levels.
Without something like this I don't have a clue how to evaluate any
one mic to another. Am I missing something or are condenser
microphones currently impossible to evaluate against each other?
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