Topic: lemosax vs nbox+

[johnw]

A lemosax was recently for sale here and I believed purchased by the OP 

[midside]

lemosax is still available...

[Big Perm]

john we need to run a comp with mk41>nbox>722 & mk41>nbox>MME>722

if i cant really tell the difference, i may have to dump the MME 

i'm finishing Umphrey's tour right now but when i get home if the lemosax is still available i may have to take that as a sign that i should pick it up
adam

[StuStu]

For the record, both Schoeps pre's are stepped gain and the Sonosax is not.

[Dkrogh]

I would also like to hear this comp.  Been thinking of the lemosax with mk41 and r0hr as a setup lately.  It's that or going with the nbox +

[GDfan]

someone posted in the ebay thread that a lemosax was available there

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=200456945854&Category=119018&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2

[Brian Skalinder]

I'd also add that the nbox supplies 60V to the caps and the lemosax only 48V. In case you didn't know, the CMC6 bodies supply 60V to the capsule. Not sure what effect the reduced voltage has if any this has on dynamic range/sensitivity but there was a huge fight on this site a few years ago about it.

Old post on the subject, including content direct from Schoeps tech support (see the last answer in red re 48v v. 60v; note I've reformatted the quote to make it easier to read - removed italics, added some "white" space, etc. - but haven't changed any content):

The orginal thread was locked. My engineer buddy, Vollmer at schoeps sent me this response:

A schoeps capsule requires 60V phantom power to operate at full
sensitivity and dynamic range.

Yes.

A CMC6 microphone body does a DC to DC conversion where 48V are
converted to 60V to bring the capsule to manufacturers specs for full
sensitivity.

No. The CMC6 does not convert "48V" to 60V. A CMC6 works with 12V or
48V. In both cases there is a loss of voltage at the powering resistors
(example 6k8 at 48V). So the CMC6 only gets about 33V (@48V) or 10V
(@12V). It creates internally a stabilized voltage of about 6.5 Volts.
These 6.5 Volts are converted to the polarization voltage of stabilized 60
Volts
 
A VMS pre amp provides 60V of power at the microphone capsule when used
with a KCY/KC5 system and no CMC6 bodies.

Yes.

The sonosax may be modified with a 5 pin (I think its 5) 'active'
system that will enable the sonosax to provide the 48V phantom power to the
capsules.  48V phantom....what?  Thats right.  This results in that
flat non existant transition between all frequencies recording that just
doesnt sound "LIVE"

When you connect the MK capsules to the Sonosax with 48V powering they
will have a 1.9dB lower sensitivity - that`s all.

[Big Perm]

I have an Nbox+ for sale...PM me if interested
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