e 902
microphone
$229
Used market: $180*
Specifications
2 of 8 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Has Built In ADC
- no·
- Transducer Type
- Dynamic Moving Coil·
- Sensitivity dBV
- -74✓
- Output Impedance ohms
- 350·
- Phantom Power Required
- no·
- Connection Architecture
- XLR-Only·
- Updated At
- 2026-08-05T23:39:34.353Z·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal Profile
A kick-drum cardioid with a shock-mounted capsule and a hum-bucking coil, deliberately deaf in the midrange. Sennheiser publishes two sensitivities for it - 0.6 mV/Pa at 60 Hz and 0.2 mV/Pa at 1 kHz - which is the response curve stated as numbers: a 9.5 dB difference between where the drum lives and where the catalogue measures.
Gain Staging Advice
-74 dBV/Pa at 1 kHz is the catalogue-comparable figure and it makes the e 902 look like it needs 70 dB of gain. It does not: on a kick the energy is at 60 Hz, where the same microphone is 9.5 dB louder, and the source is 130 dB SPL. Do not size the preamp from the 1 kHz number, and do not compare it with a vocal dynamic measured at 1 kHz - they are not describing the same job.
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.
«Frequency response 20 - 18,000 Hz»
The specification table on page one says 20 - 18,000 Hz. The Architect's Specification paragraph printed beside it, on the same page of the same PDF, says 'The frequency response shall be 40 Hz - 16,000 Hz'. The two ends differ by an octave at the bottom and two kilohertz at the top, on a microphone bought specifically for its low-frequency behaviour. The paragraph and the table agree on every other quantity, sensitivity included.
checked 8/6/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~79% retained value). · checked on 8/6/2026