With respect to inherent noise, all MD input amps' are very similar.
Klas.
At 10:11 2005-07-27, you wrote:
>The jury is still out on how many consumer grade
>recorders can perform this well with the portable
>phantom supply units. All of the PIP pre
>recorders I've tried so far have had dramatic
>improvement, but that's only a Sharp MT90, my
>TRV-900 sony camcorder and the Sony NH-900 HiMD.
>I've asked around on several lists for theories
>about what the heck could be going on but no one
>has come forth with much so far.The Art unit is
>available for $44 on eBay, so I'm hoping people
>will pick one up and see what it'll do for their
>MD/DAT/Camcorders etc. and report back. I have no
>background in circuitry whatsoever. There could
>be a special sympathy between the tested
>components, but if Klas's observation is
>correct-- that today's mic pre chips are
>basically high quality-- then we may see that
>many recorders work. Of course, it takes a low
>noise, phantom powered condenser mic to reap the
>benefits. Rob D.
>
>At 7:18 AM +0000 7/27/05, Nick Roast wrote:
> >Rob,
> >
> >Could it be that you have discovered an MD with particularly good
> >mic preamps or do you feel this will be characteristic of all domestic
> >recorders ?
> >
> >Nick Roast.
> >
> >
> >--- In Rob Danielson <>
> >wrote:
> >> No doubt people who can afford 722's and Lunatecs will tend to hear
> >> the improvement in quality they're dollars are paying for.Some will
> >> recall that I defended the pre in my 744T over every challenger--
> >> then I made and took some blind tests comparing it to the MP2 and
> >> Walt, Dan and I concluded, that once the gear gets to a high level
> >of
> >> performance its pretty hard to discern. The recent tests I did
> >> comparing the 722 and the lowly NH-900 HiMD's internal mic pre
> >seems
> > > to even question this conclusion...........
> >
> >
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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