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Re: Seeking parabolic dish like the old SONY PBR-330

Subject: Re: Seeking parabolic dish like the old SONY PBR-330
From: Gianni Pavan <>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:07:18 +0200
Hi,
         I saw something similar in the CANFORD catalog. Try a search
on their website at www.canford.co.uk;  if I'm not wrong the name of
the product they have is "big ears parabolic reflector".

Gianni


At 18.56 07/09/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>For years I have been using one of the old, now-discontinued SONY
>PBR-330 parabolic dishes
>to record cicadas and other insects.  The small size of the parabola
>has not been a problem
>since these are mostly high-frequency bugs, and if anything has been
>an advantage,
>especially given the resilience and durabiity of the
>material.  Durable as it may be, it is finally
>wearing out and I have not been able to find a similar replacement
>(size, solid construction,
>mounts any microphone, easy handle).
>
>Does anyone know of a source that sells these, or anyone who wishes
>to get rid of an old
>one?  Alternatively, I would appreciate recommendations -- what
>other model out there is not
>too large, not too floppy, and allows one to mount any mike
>(actually, Sennheiser omni in my
>case).
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Dave Marshall
>University of Connecticut
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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