Sennheisere 614
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$239
Used market: $185*
Specifications
3 of 9 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A 20 mm pencil supercardioid for overheads and percussion - 93 grams, 139 dB maximum SPL, no pad and no filter. It is the cheap half of the e 900 instrument pair: the e 914 has the switches, this one has the same job and none of them.
Gain staging
3 mV/Pa is -50.5 dBV/Pa, and with 24 dB(A) of self-noise it works at a distance as well as up close. Watch the powering line: the table says 12 - 48 V, the paragraph on the same page says 12 - 52 V. Either way a standard 48 V supply is inside both windows.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Phantom powering 12 - 48 V»
The specification table says the microphone takes 12 to 48 V of phantom power. The Architect's Specification paragraph on the same page of the same PDF says 'The microphone shall operate on 12 - 52 V phantom power'. IEC 61938 defines P12, P24 and P48; 52 V is the upper tolerance limit some manufacturers quote instead. Both windows include a standard 48 V supply, so nothing breaks - but the same page states the device's power requirement twice and does not state it the same way.
checked 8/6/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~77% retained value).