There is another alternative Jay and that is to buy
the Astatic 10-DA head instead of the D-104. The 10-d
has a flat response and sounds pretty good for $65.00.
Has hi and lo impedance also. Its a dynamic
cartridge (No batteries needed) It fits right onto
the Astatic bases and looks classical. Sorry about
the wrench.
--- "Beamer, Jay" <JBeamer@PanAmSat.com> wrote:
>
> Well gang, on this D104, CarlW2CSH threw a wrench in
> the whole thing for me
> yesterday. Below is an excerpt from a personal email
> from Carl, and hope you
> don't mind me repeating a portion of it here, but
> check out the site that
> Carl has indicated.
>
> It appears that the Astatic D104 is being produced
> with a response that
> lends itself for CB/AM use. I always wondered what
> the response of the D104
> xtal element was! So, it appears as though there are
> xtal D104's out there
> that probably have a flat response, and those that
> are not, with the non
> flat response D104's being the most currently
> manufactured. Interesting!
> I've been told the D104 I use on my Omni V sounds
> natural, but I did find in
> playing with the thing with a parametric equalizer
> that I had difficulty
> getting any bass response out of the thing. Just so
> happens that the
> response curve on the site Carl has included shows
> aprox. -12db up to
> approx. 1K on an unmodified D104. I don't know what
> I have! Guess it'll give
> me another thing to investigate.
>
> My conclusion is that a D104 will probably, in most
> cases, sound good on
> most of the Ten tec xcvrs. If you want it to sound
> better, acquire an older
> model, or have those people from that web site
> modify a new one for you.
>
> I wonder if the current freq. response of the D104
> has anything to do with
> the fact that no amateur web sites are referenced on
> the Astatic web site?
>
> ciao,
>
> Jay/KM6VX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Hyde [mailto:cshyde@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 12:10 PM
> To: Beamer, Jay
> Subject: RE: [TenTec] D-104
>
>
> No I don't jest in this case. The rolloff and gain
> curve of the newer Astatic D-104s is specifically
> designed for CB or AM. There is a company on the
> web
> (URL is
>
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/electroservepro/d104.html)
>
> that will take your D-104 and make a real SSB mic
> out
> of it by flattening out the response curve. I have
> also learned a lot about mics from Heil's web site.
> I
> have an Astatic 10-DA and I think its a much better
> SSB mice than the D-104. But as you know Jay its
> all
> subjective. ......
>
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