At 5:46 PM +0000 11/9/09, escalation746 wrote:
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>Rob Danielson wrote:
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>> I've tried to incorporate sensitivity into the EIN
>> ranges. I feel that the role of mic self-noise has
>> to be in there centrally if the recommendations are
>> going to address noise performance quality.
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>I agree and like these specific classes. My own personal list is
>ordered by EIN and your classes accord with how I think about the
>devices. I will present this perspective in a future article. I
>thought it more important to most of my readers to look at form
>factor first of all. The article was in part written to answer some
>specific questions people have asked me face-to-face.
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>It would be good to have some idea what the self-noise of the
>built-in mics is, apart from the external pre-amp stage. But I can't
>see any way of measuring that short of surgery on the electronics.
>
>-- robin
Hi Robin--
There may be a few exceptions, but its likely the mic capsules used
in pocket recorders have self-noise ratings of 20 dB(A) and higher.
One exception might be the Sony D-1's capsules which recordists have
commented upon favorably.
Let me know if I can be of assistance. Rob D.
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