[TenTec] Re: D-104

[w8au@sssnet.com]

Geez, Royboy....

This doesn't mean I hafta give up my three D-104's, does it?  
They are one in perhaps a half dozen microphone stylings that still look
like real microphones...!
Phoo on those teeny-tiny electrets, even if they do sound OK.
(No, I don't think I could bring myself to hide an electret inside a D-104
case.....sacrilege..!)

Besides, I do my talkin' with my fingers, anyway.  These bright shiny
classic lookin' things are just for decoration!

(Do YOU have, or use, a microphone, Roy?  We could get some nasty rumors
started here....)

As always,

Perry, w8au



At 10:28 AM 6/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi folks,
>
>My thoughts on the '104:   Back in ancient tube days, gain was not so easy,
>and perhaps one entire pre-amp stage could be eliminated by using the high
>output voltage from the crystal element which matched very well the near
>infinite impedance of a small grid. Hence the advantage of the delicate,
>vulnerable xtal cartridge.
>
>Now gain is cheap and easy, along with response control of the audio
>bandpass. A rugged, lifetime-lasting mike such as a dynamic, with a
>relatively flat response seems the natural way to go. If you want to have a
>response curve other than flat, the place to achieve it is in the
>transmitter's pre-amp circuitry. Xtal elephants seem silly in the space age.
>:-)
>
>Roy    K6XK



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