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On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> If I remember correctly it was the head of schoeps who proclaimed/said last

quoted text
> fall that with todays condensor microphones (well, what he considers a

> microphone) and todays ad-converters, there is really no need of a variable

> gain as both have the same dynamic range... Was about digital microphones

> where the adc is directly behind the pre-amplifier of the mic.

That is exactly what Neumann have done for their digital versions

of e.g. the U87. The AD converter is inside the mic and there is

no analog gain control at all. But they had to redesign the analog

input circuits of the AD to match the actual capsule to get that far.

Don't know if they went as far as actually integrating the first

FET into the AD chip and connecting the capsule directly to it, but

it's certainly possible to do this today.
OTOH there's no real life reason why a mic should be capable of

handling extremely low and high (above 120dB SPL) levels at the

same time. Having a switch to select one of the two regimes would

not be a showstopper at all.
Ciao,
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