X1 A

Tonal Profile

Two-thirds inch back-electret cardioid in an all-metal chassis, with a 100 Hz high-pass and a 20 dB pad; the entry point of the X1 line, below the X1 S.

Gain Staging Advice

20 mV/Pa and -34 dBV agree exactly, which is worth noting on a site that omits the reference elsewhere in the same range. The honest weak point is 16 dB-A of self-noise, 8 dB worse than the sE2200 - and that, not sensitivity, is what actually separates the two, since the levels differ by only 1.5 dB.