[Elecraft] Voice is clipped K3s

[Jim Brown]

On 10/10/2018 1:47 PM, bill steffey wrote:
> Shure manufactures ( or at least did when I repped them) in Mexico at 
> their plant. They also were maintaining capabilities of manufacturing 
> in the states,,,
> used to be Evanston.. now has plant in Wheeling, IL.

YES. This is generally true of REAL microphone companies, like 
ElectroVoice, Sennheiser, AKG, Neumann, and Beyer. Last I heard, EV's 
plant was in TN. Sennheiser, AKG, Neumann, and Beyer are German 
companies, and I suspect their mics are still manufactured there.

On 10/10/2018 12:56 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> It would not surprise me
> if they didn't use a common element - probably manufactured
> off shore - which means the read difference would be in mounting
> and the wind screen which would effect handling/wind noise and
> not particularly impact the response.

As a long time member of the AES Standards Committee Working Group on 
Microphones, I know engineers from most REAL mic mfrs, and I've heard 
horror stories of counterfeiting of their products, mostly from China. 
They often LOOK absolutely identical, but they are NOT the same and 
don't perform the same.

The same is true of connectors -- the common problems with the 
counterfeit parts are that they don't mate solidly, dielectrics may melt 
when you try to solder them, they may fall apart, they have dissimilar 
metals issues.

Companies like Heil and Behringer ARE buying cheap generic capsules and 
putting them in fancy housings. Big companies like Yamaha, Panasonic, 
and Sony probably DO mfr their own mic capsules and headphones.

73, Jim K9YC