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Re: hat mic

Subject: Re: hat mic
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:12:18 -0500
At 4:34 AM +0000 7/11/04, Rich Peet wrote:
>  Having three capsules in parallel
>drops the microphone self noise by 4.5 db and triples the
>sensitivity.


That's appreciable. I guess one could wire three Shure WL-183 omni 
caps running on each C-122 mic cable and get 18dB(A) self noise and 
42 mv/Pa X3 sensitivity for about $350 a pair,..or serial em-23 
elements which start out with 14dB(A) self noise.  Rob D.


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