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SamsonQ7x

microphone

New retail price (MSRP)

$79

Used market: $60*

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Specifications

5 of 8 values have a recorded source
Connectors
XLR 3-Pin Male·
Built-in converter
no·
Transducer
Dynamic Moving Coil✓
Sensitivity
-55.2✓
Output impedance
200✓
Phantom power required
no✓
Connection
XLR-Only✓
Indexable Locales
·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Tonal profile

Supercardioid neodymium handheld with a die-cast body and a multi-axis capsule shock mount, 50 Hz - 16 kHz, rated to 147 dB SPL. Samson prints the sensitivity in both scales, -55.2 dBV/Pa and 1.7 mV/Pa, and the two agree to 0.2 dB.

Gain staging

-55.2 dBV/Pa is 0.7 dB below an SM58 and 0.8 dB above an SM57, in a microphone that costs a quarter as much, and the 200 ohm output loads nothing. Whatever gain setting works for an SM58 works here - which is the whole argument for it.

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~76% retained value).