Quality mics using electrets?

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Bob Cain <arcane@arcanemethods.com> wrote:
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>What quality mics use electrets instead of voltage charging?

Well, the first decent ones were the Shure SM-81s.... Shure did a really
nice job of designing clean and stable electret elements that didn't leak
the way most of thier competitors did. All of the Shure condensers are
still electret designs as far as I know.

The DPA recording series microphones are electrets. That's probably the
best example. The new AKG 451 reissues are electrets.

The Sennheiser MKH-series microphones aren't either electret or voltage
charged capsules, but a wacky RF discriminator circuit. If you are looking
for electret mikes because of humidity problems, they do just as well.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Bob Cain wrote:
> What quality mics use electrets instead of voltage charging?
> I won't attempt to define "quality."
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> Thanks,
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> Bob
> --
>
> "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
> simpler."
>
> A. Einstein

What about some of the Audio Technica microphones, like the AT4033?

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Bob Cain wrote:
> What quality mics use electrets instead of voltage charging?
> I won't attempt to define "quality."
>

DPA, I think.

Karl Winkler
Lectrosonics, Inc.
http://www.lectrosonics.com

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The ubiquitous Sennheiser ME66 short-shotgun/hypercardioid.

Philip Perkins