AKG P 8 ES

Data[edit]

General:

  • Manufacturer: AKG
  • Model: P 8 ES
  • Type: Pickup
  • Years of manufacture: 1977 - 1983
  • Color: part transparent, otherwise black
  • Weight: 5.9 g, effective mass 5.1 g
  • Original price approx.: 300 DM


Technical Data

  • Principle: MM, subtype Moving Irons
  • Frequency response: 10 - 28'000 Hz
  • Channel separation: 35 dB
  • Channel balance:
  • Crosstalk attenuation:
  • Output voltage: 3.75 mV
  • Terminating resistor: 47 kOhm
  • Induction:
  • Needle type: elliptical/ Van den Hul I
  • Recommended contact force: 7.5 ... 12.5 mN, stereo recommended 12 mN
  • Needle compliance: 35 mm/N


Special Features

  • Moving Irons Principle: On the needle carrier, unlike the MM principle, there is no permanent magnet moving directly between the coils, but indirectly a small, lighter iron tube within a magnetic field.


Remarks[edit]



Pictures[edit]

  • Excerpt from brochure: AKG P pickup 1979

AKG P-Tonabnehmer-Prospekt-1979.jpg


Reports[edit]

  • Test report in Fono Forum 5 / 1978


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