1 Feb
2010
1 Feb
'10
4:22 p.m.
On 1 February 2010 at 21:00, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Nettingsmeier?=
<nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> wrote:
but check out the EIN column:
[snip]
POCKET DIMENSIONS VOL MASS
PRICE XLR MIC EIN
------------------- -------------- ---- ---- ----- --- --- ---
Sony MZ-RH1 85 x 84 x 15 107 106 $ 350 - - 124
Olympus LS-10 132 x 48 x 22 139 165 $ 300 - + 122
Olympus LS-11 132 x 48 x 22 139 165 $ 400 - + 122
Sony PCM-M10 114 x 64 x 22 161 187 $ 300 - + 122
Marantz PMD620 102 x 62 x 25 164 170 $ 400 - - 112
M-Audio MicroTrack II 109 x 63 x 28 174 192 $ 200 - - 106
Korg MR-1 120 x 64 x 24 184 200 $ 500 - - 117
Edirol R-09HR 113 x 62 x 27 186 166 $ 300 - + 118
if that means what i think it means (equivalent input noise), and i'm
not totally out of touch with the state of preamp technology, i'd say
all but the 106, the 99 and the ? are bogus. and i'm not even sure about
the 106 :)
i wonder who makes these figures up? or is there a legal way to doctor
the measurements to actually yield such values without being sued?
Could it be that EIN refers only to theoretical quantization noise of
the units? I didn't run that calc.
I'm also suspicious ~120dB equivalent input noise, presuming the sign
of that number is negative. Well, with either sign the number seems
fictitious.
--
Kevin