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Gear / Technical Help => Microphones & Setup => Topic started by: down2earthlandscaper on September 04, 2018, 03:29:02 AM
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Does anyone know what the difference is? Why is one "EB" and the other just "B"???
I found this. It doesn't have the E
https://proaudio.com/catalog/akg-c568b-electret-condenser-shotgun-microphone.asp
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E = export model (XLR connector). Alternatives in the past have been C = continental model (small Tuchel connector), L = Lemo (for the Austrian state broadcast network ORF) and F = France (Sogie connector, yuck).
Since the XLR connector achieved nearly total dominance in the professional market decades ago, and non-XLR versions ceased manufacture except as occasional, special orders, AKG stopped adding the "E" to most of their model numbers. It had become a "distinction without a difference."
More recently, Neumann has cautiously begun doing the same thing with the suffix i = international, Beyer has dropped their (C) = Cannon suffix, and Schoeps could probably do the same with the U = universal at the end of most of their product names--except that Schoeps does use Lemo and Binder connectors for certain products (such as the CCM L series and the recently discontinued CMB I amplifiers), so in their case it actually does contain some distinguishing information.
--best regards
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^ Thanks !!! ^