Any idea how the ECM970 compares to the ECM907? IRTI sells that and may be recommending it for use with the Pocket?
Dean -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan kysor Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:18 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: looking for a good stereo microphone to conduct podcast interviews that is an excellent mic and use it all the time. Dan > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Colin r. Howard <co...@pobox.com >To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org >Date sent: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:11:47 +0000 >Subject: Re: looking for a good stereo microphone to conduct podcast interviews >Greetings, >I am not sure if it is still made but I use a Sony ECM970 which is a small >hand-held single-point stereo-mic with three-position switch - towards the >hand is off, middle is narow- and nearest the head is wide-band stereo. It >is powered by a single AA batterey, I have a metal hydride in mine and one >charge has lasted well over a year. When the charge goes, it >*8sudd**suddenly** goes, takes about half a minute or less, fades and then >gone unlike most dry cells which in my experience of some forty years, give >good power for a fair time then over a period of (say) two or three hours, >fade giving worse and worse sound. >Metal hydride batteries need a special charger, cannot charge with one used >for the old-fashioned nycads, they do not have a memory as did nycad >batteries and they can last about a thousand charging cycles but when they >fail, they fail completely. >I've been using them for the last half-dozen or so years and have used many >many in all kinds of equipment; in the time, have had about three duds and >five finished their lives. >>From Colin Howard who lives near Southampton in >Southern England. >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4929 (20100309) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
