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Back-electret Condenser Microphone
Published in SOS May 2008

Reviews : Microphone


Can you really use a £25 mic for serious recording?

Paul White

The Superlux Sonata ECOH6A is a very low-cost capacitor microphone that the manufacturers suggest is suitable for both live and recording applications — and as it costs only £25 I had to test this claim!

A back-electret capsule around half an inch in diameter provides a fixed cardioid-pattern response, with a useful frequency range of 40Hz to 18kHz and a sensitivity of 22mV/Pa. Sound levels of up to 136dB can be accommodated and the transformerless output stage has a 200(omega)...


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