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LEWITTLCT 240 PRO

microphone

New retail price (MSRP)

$159

Used market: $125*

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Specifications

5 of 8 values have a recorded source
Connectors
XLR 3-Pin Male·
Built-in converter
no·
Transducer
Condenser Electret✓
Sensitivity
-35.5✓
Output impedance
100✓
Phantom power required
yes✓
Connection
XLR-Only✓
Indexable Locales
·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Tonal profile

17 mm cardioid with a 3 micron gold-sputtered Mylar diaphragm; no pad, no filter, no switches at all on the base model.

Gain staging

LEWITT prints both scales and they agree: 16.7 mV/Pa, -35.5 dBV/Pa. The exact conversion is -35.54, so the datasheet is right to a tenth - the only manufacturer in this batch that is consistently so. Self-noise of 19 dB-A is the honest ceiling on how quiet a source this will handle, while the 142 dB max SPL without a pad is unusually generous for the price.

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~79% retained value).