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Jim Gregory wrote:
Didn't realise it was a Sony tieclip dooberry he was complaining about.
As it's an electret it should give stacks more level than your ordinary
200 Ohm moving coil, assuming the polarising voltage is there.

Chas, must be it's connected up wrongly.

My thoughts too. IIRC, the ECM 66 comes with an XLR output battery pack
that will also accept phantom. If that's been removed - as you would for
radio mic use etc - the amp volts have to be provided by other means. Of
course many recorders do supply the volts needed for an electret mic, but
it's a bit of a grey area, standards wise.

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