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Re: [gear] Zoom H2 self-noise estimate

Subject: Re: [gear] Zoom H2 self-noise estimate
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Sun Sep 9, 2007 12:13 am ((PDT))
At 2:17 AM +0000 9/9/07, oryoki2000 wrote:
>A post to a Zoom discussion forum sheds some
>light on the mic and preamp noise level of
>the new Zoom H2 recorder.  The test results
>show that the H2's EIN is somewhere around -115 dB
>when using the internal mics. 
>

...

>http://www.2090.org/zoom/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=9542
>
>--oryoki
>
>

Hi Oryoki--
Could those numbers could be misleading? Self-noise performance from 
the H2's built-in mics comparable to -115 EIN dBA would be comparable 
~12dBA self-noise and 18mV/Pa sensitivity according to Table 3:  
http://www.rane.com/note148.html .  Rob D.
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