Sennheisere 906
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$219
Used market: $170*
Specifications
2 of 8 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Transducer
- Dynamic Moving Coil·
- Sensitivity
- -53.2✓
- Output impedance
- 350·
- Phantom power required
- no·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
The metal-bodied successor to the e 609: same flat side-address shape for hanging in front of a cabinet, but with a three-position presence switch on the body. The switch is a passive filter, not a pad - it changes tone, not level.
Gain staging
2.2 mV/Pa is -53.2 dBV/Pa, the loudest of the Sennheiser instrument dynamics here and 2.8 dB above an SM57. In front of a cranked guitar speaker that means the preamp sits lower, which is where a cheap preamp behaves best.
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value).