Saturday, February 1, 2020

Comparing 3 AKG D190 ER, E, C microphones


Signal path:


male singing voice - AKG D190 various models, vintage year - Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) or no filter - Sony TC-D5 Pro - Sennheiser HD580


When comparing mics it is very important to reverse the phase if a mic is out of phase as monitoring in this particular example is dine with headphones in real time.


AKG D190ER (XLR connector) (reporter's version)
very focused on voice, no bass or treble heaviness
filtering is possibly internally impemented with a CL in series with R filter and total connected in parallel to voice coil. CL is a band pass filter and R creates a gentle low cut, high cut slope


AKG D190E (XLR connector)
This should be an old version as the stand adaptor that came with it is the oldest chrome, transparent type.
Deep bass, high treble, nice mid range.


AKG D190C (mini Tuchel connector)
No idea how old this mic is.
It has less output. Less bass, less treble. Great midrange, possibly the smoothest.
Still much more high output than the excellent too Shure SM59









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