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Re: WL183 vs. WL93

Subject: Re: WL183 vs. WL93
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:27 am (PDT)
Unless I missed some posts, Gus's relevant question,

>Looking through the Shure specs, I find the WL93 is less expensive,
>  >has greater frequency response, lower noise level, and higher output.
>  What am I missing here?

seems to go back to October of 2004 yet unanswered.

Compare:

Shure WL93  Subminiature Omni Condenser Lavalier Microphone
http://www.shure.com/ProAudio/Products/WirelessMicrophones/us_pro_WL93_cont=
ent
Output Level: -38 dBV/Pa (13 mV)
Output Noise: 18 dB typical, A-weighted / Signal-to-Noise Ratio :76
dB at 94 dB SPL (IEC 651)
Voltage: 2 to 10 V; 5 V nominal (pin 2 to pins 3 and 4)
Output Impedance: 3000 ohms

vs.

Shure Lavaliere Omni Condenser Microphones WL-183
http://www.shure.com/ProAudio/Products/WirelessMicrophones/us_pro_WL183_con=
tent
Sensitivity (1 Pa =3D 94 dB SPL)
Output Noise: -40.0 dBV/Pa
Output Impedance: 1800 ohms

$72 http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/WL93

1800 ohms vs 3000 ohms anyone? Any updates Gus? Did you get that hum
to go away?

Rob D.

  =3D =3D =3D

At 9:02 PM -0700 10/27/04, Dan Dugan wrote:
>Gus wrote:
>
>>Hello, am new to the group.  Thank you for being here.  I have been
>>researching microphones to work with my Sharp MD-DR7 for nature sound
>>recording.  I have seen a number of messages suggesting the Shure
>>WL183's to be very good, inexpensive mics-as low as $71 each.
>>
>  >Looking through the Shure specs, I find the WL93 is less expensive,
>>has greater frequency response, lower noise level, and higher output.
>  >  What am I missing here?
>
>Thanks for the tip, I'm going to take a look at it.
>
>-Dan Dugan
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


--
Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/





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