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Subject: Re: hydrophone 2
From: "Kim Cascone" anechoicmedia
Date: Mon May 14, 2007 7:44 am ((PDT))
> But in fact I played a lot with piezoceramic transducers, but using
> them
> as hydrophone, I never got enough gain to records other things that
> strong waterstreams.
> As Derek told us several times, the keypoint with piezo is impedance
> matching, but I am still wondering about how to make it...
> The LAB40 is said to have it.

I'll bet you that the LAB40 is nothing more than a piezo xducer with
a Watlington preamp tucked away inside a small plastic container like
this:
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/adsl9dhg/hydro_circuits.htm

more info can be found here:
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/adsl9dhg/hydro_dunking.htm

good luck!








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