[Elecraft] Microphone Qusestion

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,7/5/2015 12:31 PM, Clive Lorton wrote:
> The fact that Joe  thinks certain products are over priced is his 
> view, not necessarily everyone's 

No, it's because Joe (and I) know microphones quite well, and we know 
what good stuff costs. Joe is a retired broadcast engineering manager, 
I'm retired from four decades in pro audio, including work as a 
recording engineer. I'm also a member of the AES Standards Committee and 
the Working Group on Microphones.

> otherwise Heil would not be in business. 

Heil is in business for the same reason that Bose is in business -- they 
spend a lot of money on advertising, and their customers don't know 
enough about the product they are selling to know they're being 
suckered. In the audio biz, we say of Bose, "better sound through 
marketing."  The same applies to Heil.

When I got back on the air in 2003, I was still very busy running my 
audio biz, so I bought a used K2/100, which came with a Heil PTT mic 
(MH2). I opened it up and found an inexpensive electret capsule that 
couldn't have cost more than a buck or two wedged into an opening with a 
piece of foam behind it.

73, Jim K9YC