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Re: Do we still love the NT1a?

Subject: Re: Do we still love the NT1a?
From: "Marinos Koutsomichalis" marinoskouts=
omichalis
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 7:11 pm ((PDT))

Maybe you' re right,=0D
but to my ears the mics I mentioned sound better and more detailed..=0D

I have to admit though that the Nt1s sounds 3 times their price up ...=0D
but I would never select them over a good schoeps, neuman or  =0D
sennheiser small diaphragm rig..=0D


On 10 =CE=A3=CE=B5=CF=80 2009, at 4:11 =CF=80.=CE=BC., Rob Danielson wrote:=
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> At 11:50 PM +0300 9/9/09, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote:=0D
> > Well,=0D
> >=0D
> >it wouldn' t be fair to make a direct comparison as the Nt1-a is a=0D
> >really cheap microphone, and mainly a studio oriented one...=0D
> >So let me make clear that what I don' t like is not the Nt1-a as a=0D
> >microphone, but the Nt1-a as a microphone for natire and wildlife=0D
> >recordings...=0D
> >=0D
> >Anyway,=0D
> >First of all I don' t like large diaphragm microphones for nature=0D
> >recordings, as they tend to colour sound and they are not detailed=0D
> >enough in the high end,=0D
>=0D
> I've not encountered this performance characteristic with the NT1-A=0D
> recordings I've made. For many of them I've been able to=0D
> simultaneously compare their high response to that of much more=0D
> expensive small diaphragm mics. Rob D.=0D
>=0D
> -- =0D
>=0D
> =0D










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