LewittLCT 140 AIR
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$199
Used market: $155*
Specifications
0 of 9 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Self-noise
- 20·
- Transducer
- Condenser Electret·
- Sensitivity
- -36.7·
- Output impedance
- 173·
- Phantom power required
- yes·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A small-diaphragm pencil with a two-position voicing switch: FLAT, or AIR - a broad lift above 6 kHz that is done in the electronics, not the capsule. Permanently polarised, so it is an electret despite the price bracket it competes in.
Gain staging
Lewitt prints both scales and they agree exactly: 14.6 mV/Pa is -36.7 dBV/Pa to the decimal. 20 dB(A) is the honest weak point - on a quiet acoustic guitar in a quiet room this is the noisiest microphone in this batch alongside the LCT 040.
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value).