AKG P 8 ES
Data
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
- 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
- Successor:
- AKG P 25 MD
Pictures
- Excerpt from brochure: AKG P pickup 1979
Reports
- Test report in Fono Forum 5 / 1978