AKG P 8 E

Data

General:

• Manufacturer: AKG
• Model: P 8 E
• Type: Pickup
• Years of manufacture: 1977 - 1981
• Color: part transparent, otherwise black
• Weight: 5.9 g, effective mass 5.1 g
• Original price approx.: 250 DM

Technical Data

• Principle: MM, subtype Moving Irons
• Frequency response: 10 - 23'000 Hz
• Channel separation: 35 dB
• Channel balance:
• Crosstalk attenuation:
• Output voltage: 4 mV
• Terminating resistor: 47 kOhm
• Inductance:
• Needle type: elliptical
• Recommended contact force: 7.5 - 12.5 mN
• Needle compliance: 35 mm/N

Special Features

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

Remarks

• Other models in the same series:
• AKG P 6 E
• AKG P 6 R
• AKG P 7 E
• AKG P 8 E
• AKG P 8 ES
• AKG P 8 ES Super Nova needle with Van den Hul II cut

Pictures

• Excerpt from brochure: AKG P pickup 1979

Reports

• Test report in Fono Forum 5 / 1978

Links

• P8 ES at Stereo-Klassiker;
• data;
• [http://www.edsstuff.org/docs/AKGP6P7P8.pdf overview/catalog excerpt