First time out last Fri with these mics, i'm quite pleased with the result:
05. Whole Lotta Love.mp3 - 10.22MB (The link will stream)
I'm always curious to hear new mics.
But what I really want to hear are "ambient" recordings. Just put the mics up in your kitchen and record dinnertime, washing the dishes, feeding your dog or whatever, then put up a small (one or two minute sample). A great mic will give stunning realism and natural sound, while a lesser mic will pick everything up just fine, but will sound like "a recording", something you might get with an old cassette recorder.
Ideally a clean analog front end (Edirol, Tascam etc, or even minidisc) would be preferred over "consumer grade" nJB3 or iRiver, but anything you can get is fine.
Lately what I've been doing is putting two mics side by side and recording one of the left channel and the other on the right channel. Then playback in mono and alternate between them to hear the differences. I built a little "switchbox" that has two stereo miniplug inputs and one output. It takes the right channel from two different stereo mics and routes them to L/R of the recorder.
This is more geeky than watching or playing sports. You can go outside and record traffic, lawnmowers, etc if you like too, just don't exercise please...
Richard