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Reviews For: Sterling Audio ST51

Category: Microphones for ham radio

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Review Summary For : Sterling Audio ST51
Reviews: 1MSRP: $99.00
Description:
Large diaphragm recording microphone with outstanding sound and construction. The ST51’s 6-micron, gold-evaporated Mylar® diaphragm is optimized to capture definition and detail for both vocal and instrument recordings. Class-A FET circuitry provides unparalleled smoothness and warmth to your recordings.

Product is in production
More Info: http://www.sterlingaudio.net/products/index.cfm?product=ST51 FET&modId=0
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N8SDR Rating: 2012-03-09
Nice warm audio Bang for the Buck Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Pick up this condenser large diaphragm microphone
a few weeks back after reviewing some Home studio vocal microphone choices. Turns out it was a good move. Now geting nice audio reports with smooth warm sound. The microphone does require a 48 volt supplu so I grabed a low cost Art Tube MP studio microphone preamp. The Balanced line out is approx 600 ohms, it has a 12AX7 tube report. which I may swap out later for an RCA (nos).

From the preamp balanced 3pin XLR out I made up a cable with an Rj45 connector then into a FLEX 3000.

For the price of the mic and the ART tube preamp about 135.00 it has great audio and cheaper then a lot of the Heils and a few others.

Microphone specs:

product SPECifications
Preamp Class-A FET
Polar Patterns Cardioid
Frequency Response 20Hz - 18kHz
High Pass Filter N/A
Attenuation Pad N/A
Sensitivity 30mV/Pa
Maximum SPL 134dB
Equivalent Noise 22dB SPL - A weighted