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Subject: mic sensitivity ratings
From: derek holzer <>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:44:05 -0800
How do you read this stuff? For example, the Sennheiser MKH 30 has two
ratings side by side:

25mV/Pa (8mV/Pa +-1dB)

Which number would represent the effective sensitivity which I could
compare with another mic, say the MBHO KA 100 LK capsule, which rates:

12 mV/Pa

on the spec sheet?

Does this mean that MKH mic is more than twice as sensitive as the MBHO,
or that the MBHO is about one and a half times as sensitive as the MKH?

Are there other factors in the spec sheets that I would have to take
into account to get a good comparison between different mic
sensitivities and self-noise?

thx + best,
d.

=09

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