Eeyore wrote:

Arny Krueger wrote:

IME it is not difficult to find mic preamps and converters that are quiet
enough that they don't materially add to the noise coming out of a typical
capacitor microphone.

These days certainly not a problem whatever.

In fact, taking that TLM103 example, with +13dBu ? max out, it may not even need
any preamp at all to connect it to a converter if intending to use it at high
SPLs.

Graham