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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #330 on: December 16, 2012, 09:57:43 AM »
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #331 on: December 16, 2012, 12:00:38 PM »
OK Thanks for that link,i never have any luck with taperssection search function for some reason.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #332 on: December 16, 2012, 02:40:33 PM »
OK Thanks for that link,i never have any luck with taperssection search function for some reason.

If you don't like TS's search, you can use google: site:taperssection.com +"sony pcm-m10" +"low cut filter"
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #333 on: December 17, 2012, 03:14:44 AM »
I got a second M10 recently; bought my first one in 2011.  Recorded 3.5 hours the other day on each unit using AT853 > battery box > M10, and the same type of NiMH batteries in each.  The old M10 still had 3 bars on the battery icon by the end, and the new M10 had a flashing battery icon with zero bars.

Both units are set to 'NiMH' battery type in the menus.  I also tried recharging the batteries, switching battery pairs between the units, and recording > 3 hrs again.  Same result.  Any idea why battery life is so poor on this new unit?
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #334 on: December 17, 2012, 07:15:57 AM »
Is the new unit actually running the battery down or is it just showing as empty on the display?

Either way, I'd be sending it back to the shop - no matter what encoding, PiP, limiter, output etc options you have engaged, I can't see why the batteries should run down *that* much more quickly than usual.
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #335 on: December 17, 2012, 05:25:27 PM »
Hmm, that's weird as fu@k. I get around 15 hrs running 2 year old 2300mah energizes in BOTH my M10s
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #336 on: December 20, 2012, 10:51:37 AM »
Any chance the Church UBB battery box could cause the AA batteries in the M10 to deplete more quickly than an SP battery box?  I didn't try switching battery boxes.

In any case, I decided to return the unit and try my luck with a different one.  FYI ... B&H is selling the M10 for $199 (that price appeared after I added it to my cart).
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #337 on: December 23, 2012, 09:13:54 AM »
Any chance the Church UBB battery box could cause the AA batteries in the M10 to deplete more quickly than an SP battery box?  I didn't try switching battery boxes.

In any case, I decided to return the unit and try my luck with a different one.  FYI ... B&H is selling the M10 for $199 (that price appeared after I added it to my cart).

"It depends."

I recently ran AT853/c's > UBB > M10 at the back of a venue (in the VIP section) and had to run the M10 at line input 9 or 10 and was still only seeing peaks of -12dB.  I was using five or six year old Eneloops (bad me) but only saw about a 1/2 drain on that recording.

What can drain batteries quickly is having the volume playback level set at 30 and not have anything connected to the M10 -- I tried this once and noticed a 2 hour show took me to 1/3 of strength.   

I think sending back the M10 was the smart move on your part.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #338 on: December 25, 2012, 08:00:26 PM »
Any chance the Church UBB battery box could cause the AA batteries in the M10 to deplete more quickly than an SP battery box?  I didn't try switching battery boxes.

In any case, I decided to return the unit and try my luck with a different one.  FYI ... B&H is selling the M10 for $199 (that price appeared after I added it to my cart).

"It depends."

I recently ran AT853/c's > UBB > M10 at the back of a venue (in the VIP section) and had to run the M10 at line input 9 or 10 and was still only seeing peaks of -12dB.  I was using five or six year old Eneloops (bad me) but only saw about a 1/2 drain on that recording.

What can drain batteries quickly is having the volume playback level set at 30 and not have anything connected to the M10 -- I tried this once and noticed a 2 hour show took me to 1/3 of strength.   

I think sending back the M10 was the smart move on your part.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #339 on: January 08, 2013, 09:11:24 PM »
Hello, all. I just wanted to sign in as the new owner of a red M10 that I bought today at Dale Pro Audio.

First impression: It's smaller than I'd expected, and the shade of red is darker than I'd expected, but both surprises are nice as far as I'm concerned.

As soon as I learn the controls and settings, I plan to use it with a pair of Schoeps mikes with CMBI bodies--the ones with internal batteries and unbalanced outputs.

Some technoid questions:
- Has anyone here measured the input overload voltage for the mike inputs?
- Does anyone here know whether the unit applies dither when it's set for 16-bit recording?

My apologies if those questions have already been asked and answered many times before.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #340 on: January 08, 2013, 09:12:53 PM »
WOW, for once, Im stumped about M10 questions :P Sorry Im no help on those DSatz :)
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #341 on: January 08, 2013, 09:51:46 PM »
OK, I've got an answer to my own first question: With "MIC SENS" set to LOW the mike inputs can handle about 1 Volt without overload (measured at 1 kHz). So as long as the rec level control is set to ~1.5-2 or higher, the mike preamps can't be clipped before the recording level reaches 0 dB (full scale). Very nice!

By the way, with just below 1V at the mike inputs, the THD+N is so low (definitely below 0.03%) that I'm gonna have to dig up a better test generator to measure it. Time to fire up the old Hewlett-Packard ...
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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #342 on: January 09, 2013, 09:05:01 AM »
^^^ That squares well with guysonic's measurement.  He said 2 dBu for the mic input and 24 dBu for the line input...

As for dithering in 16-bit, I have no idea.  Maybe you can find some information about that in the codec spec sheet?  I think it is a Cirrus CS42L52.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #343 on: January 09, 2013, 01:56:29 PM »

Some technoid questions:
- Has anyone here measured the input overload voltage for the mike inputs?

--best regards

Hi DSatz,

here my rough measurements:

0dB on the meter, numbers are approximate pot settings:

Mic Hi:

10 0.8mV
5   6.1mV
3  34.8mV

Mic Lo:

10 8.9mV
5 55.6mV
3 237mV (!)

Line In:

10 500mV
5  1610mV

These are not the clip levels, but the input level giving a 0dBFS indication.

Hope that helps.

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Re: Sony PCM-M10 (Part 6)
« Reply #344 on: January 09, 2013, 08:00:54 PM »
Hallo Reiner! Actually I was mainly interested in knowing the maximum voltage that the mike inputs can accept without distortion, which (I'm happy to say) turns out to be just slightly above the maximum voltage that my microphones can produce.

But the figures that you listed are also very useful, both to me and undoubtedly to others here as well. So, many thanks!

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