Dan & all,
Indeed I had awful problems with the MKH 8020s, got through about 4
pairs, then Germany found the solution, there was a design fault
somewhere, something shorting out, a problem with the earth. My
current re-designed replacement pair are just wonderful, I like them
much better than the MKH20s as they are quieter, and of course
substantially smaller and lighter. I have not done a huge amount of
work with them at this stage, but no problems so far, and I'm not
expecting there will be.
As an added precaution, and being a SASS person, I have actually now
embedded the mics within a block of SASS shaped closed-cell foam,
which should insulate and protect them.
Vicki Powys
Australia
On 22/04/2014, at 10:09 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:
> When Sennheiser came out with their 8000-series mics, some nature
> recordists tried the MKH 8020 as a replacement for the tried-and-
> true MKH 20 omni mic. The offered improvements are smaller size and
> extended high frequency response to 60 KHz.
>
> Vicky Powys, for one, tried them and reported noise generation when
> used in the field. They were returned to the regional office for
> repair but that was ineffective. Based on this report and others
> (Martyn, I think?) the model got a bad reputation nature recording
> community.
>
> I bought four of them a while after, hoping that the fix was in. One
> of them developed noises in the field. Sennheiser in Old Lyme
> reported that there was a new fix, but the mics had to go back to
> Germany. The regional offices had not yet been trained to do the new
> fix.
>
> My four mics went home to Germany. After four months I got them
> back. They have now been out on two overnight recording sessions.
> The first was at Mariposa Grove in Yosemite this March, and the
> second last weekend at El Polin Spring in the Presidio of San
> Francisco. At El Polin Spring the humidity was 90% and everything
> was soaked with condensation from dusk to dawn. They performed
> perfectly.
>
> So I'm declaring the problem solved.
>
> -Dan
>
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