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> Thanks to Walter and Martyn for the advice.
> I am particularly intrigued by the Sennheiser MKH-110 mics, but I
> cant seem to find any place where they can actually be purchased-any
> recommendations?
> Also, it seems like they may nott work with regular XLRs? Am I wrong?
They are a mic that originally came out in the 60's, a much earlier
generation MKH, you will not find new ones except old stock, and that's
very rare. They are unique primarily in that they have a extremely low
bottom frequency, a microphone of choice for infrasound. There were a
couple models, the more or less standard ones go down to 1Hz, then there
were some with a -1 after the model that went down to 0.1Hz. While not
quite as low self noise as the current MKH omni, the MKH-20, nor quite
as sensitive, that low end is significantly different.
I got all mine off Ebay, before Rich tried to corner the market on them.
They do take a special power setup. The original Sennheiser diagram can
be found off my SASS page:
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/my_mod_sass.html
I use only a trimpot and a cap off of a 9 volt battery in mine. Note
there is DC across the signal lines, so they must be DC isolated with
another cap. There is more than one way to get power for them.
Also we have had problems when two are used together. Get a annoying
whine if the cases of the two are electrically connected through the
shielding. I just end the shielding just before the connectors and let
the cases float in my SASS setup.
Yes the connectors are not standard XLR, though they are 3 pin.
I use mine in their original unmodified form. I believe Rich is
"modernizing" some of his. I did not see the need. And since I don't
have tuning info for the RF oscillator, did not want to get into messing
with it.
I know of no current model mic that's equivalent.
Walt
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