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Re: New noisy mic amps!

Subject: Re: New noisy mic amps!
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Fri Sep 1, 2006 7:18 am (PDT)
At 05:03 2006-09-01, you wrote:
>At 2:41 AM +0200 9/1/06, Klas Strandberg wrote:
>
> >
> >  >And portability/small mass is a huge factor!
> >>Personally, I prefer your the response curve of
> >>your EM-23's to that of Senn 62's and your
> >>packaging could be smaller.  A separate "body
> >>pack" design  where the pre is separate from the
> >>heads, like the MBHO 603's could be very popular.
> >>A pair of me-62's  are $90USD, so maybe you could
> >>be competitive.
> >
> >I have an idea... making "raw" small amps for 9v and then let the custom=
er
> >do the job with jacks, battery holder, switches etc. Size? Two lumps of
> >sugar.. or so..? With a few wires coming out.
>
>Even better. This product would capitalize on your FET expertise!


I'll think about it. Would be fun. Would help people, "us poor
natursound-freaks".


><snip>
> >  > >I have made the tests similar to other "clock-tick" tests presented=

> here.
> >>  >It is an easy and reliable method.
> >>  >"Correct" means that what you shall hear is the mic self noise.
> >  > >"Incorrect" means that you hear the recorder's mic amp noise.
> >  >
> >>Understood. If you can do another test a mic with
> >>12<dBA self noise or lower then we can compare it
> >>to Hi-MD performance too. :-D Rob D
> >
> >Hmm.. I don't understand...
>
>I was thinking of a way to put the noise of the R-09 pre in
>perspective-- performing another test with an external phantom power
>supply and a lower noise mic like an NT1-A. Rob D.

I have a NT1-A.... but not much time. I am now also experimenting on a
"parabolic mic" for bats and I have to do it all before it gets too cold
outside. Autumn is already in the air.

Klas.


> >
> >Klas.
> >
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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