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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: weroflu on March 12, 2025, 08:55:23 AM
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will it work?
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I think so. As I recall, the PIP output of the DAD6001 is
about 5V, but it's been years since I measured it. As long as MKE2 works when powered with 5V, which I assume it does, and you adapt it to work with the microdot connection of the DAD6001 you should be good.
[Edit- I measured 10.5V across the open circuit input of a DAD6001 while powered with P48. Note that a proper measurement would be taken while under load, with the microphone or a resistor in its place in circuit, and in that case the voltage will drop somewhat, guessing to around 9V or so. But definitely higher than 5V]
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From my past conversations with sennheiser they told me 7.5 volts minimum and up to 11 volts max.
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There have been numerous MKE2 variants with very different specifications. I believe mine were spec'ed from 0.9 - 12V, although I can't find the sheet at the moment. I know it's here somewhere...
At any rate, I use mine with my PMD620, with ~ 4.5V plug-in-power, for a minimalist, no fuss setup. Works great.
As for using them with DAD6001s, I suspect it would work (perhaps depending to some extent on which MKE2 version), but maybe there are better (and cheaper) options? Such as https://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=206011.0 (https://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=206011.0) or a Naiant PFA?
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Thread update and correction. Yesterday I measured 10.5V across the open circuit input of a DAD6001 powered with P48. Note that a proper measurement would be taken while under load, with the microphone or a resistor in its place in circuit, in which case the voltage will drop somewhat.. guessing to around 9V or so, but definitely higher than 5V as stated earlier.
As Aarron mentions, unless you already have DAD6001 that you wish to use with the MKE2, there are a number of alternate XLR powering adapter options that may work better for you. I use both DAD6001 and Naiant PFA's to power miniature DPAs. The PFA's are nice in that you can specify desired gain - I requested unity-gain when I ordered them years ago and although I've not measured specifically, their output is a few dB lower than DAD6001 when using the same mics into both adapters. The primary good/bad about DAD6001 is its rigidly mounted female microdot input. Good to have a direct microdot connection for mics equipped with that connector, but not so good in that once attached the microphone cable sticks straight out from the end of the adapter, making it somewhat awkward and venerable to damage if the adapter is then plugged straight into a recorder's XLR input. I resolve that by using a short XLR patch cable between the DAD6001 and recorder.
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i ordered the french adapters. i assume they are just a well-built 'simple p48' circuit (resistor and electro cap)
mke2 are good to 15v according to ke4 datasheet.
unfortunately all moot as even though i like the mke2 a lot, probably better than dpa (only for this application, cuz they're fuller and don't seem to focus on transients), they still don't tame source enough.
does dpa advertise 9v loaded?
mke2 worked well straight into sx m2d2 in 5v electret mode.
thx for the inputs
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does dpa advertise 9v loaded?
I could not find a specification for the mic power output voltage out of DAD 6001, which I why I pulled out the multi-meter.
The DPA specification for all of their miniature mics (except the low voltage 4063) - Power supply (for full performance) via MicroDot: 5 V to max. 10 V