I like to pepper my speech with anachronisms. Confuses the youngsters
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
It confuses the rest of us, never mind the youngsters
Don't like youngsters. I know what they're like, I used to be one!
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I'm Dennis.
What you say is contrary to my experience Andrew, and surely the loss of presence and top are a real problem with speech intelligibility, on which it depends.
This evening, as is the case so often, a lavalier was under a guy's chin on his crewe neck, probably getting proximity boost as well as the loss described, and not bothering to use the other side of a jacket to ensure that the mic is up rather than down is pure laziness.
When I mixed radio programmes I was criticised for even a small angle off axis, and very little of what is churned out now would have been acceptable then.
Yes, I agree, the mic has to be used competently to get good results. I only meant that the microphones themselves are not poor devices imho and although the term "electret" has some bad connotations I have found them to be excellent in terms of sound quality, though the signal-to-noise ratio isn't up there with the best.