Excellent base station desk mic

[WSAC829]

I finally broke down a forked over what i considered to be way too much $$$ for a microphone. While not cheap, the Delta M2 is worth every penny. It can make your radio sound like you are using a studio mic, or if cranked up, like a channel 6 Super Bowler. I’ve gotten extremely good audio reports with it no matter what rig i attach it to.

This video doesn’t do it justice, but it gives you an idea of how much deeper and louder it is compared to the D104 lollipop which went out of production around 2001 IIRC.

 

[slowmover]

You bought because it was chrome, right?😉

My secret vice is so far only hand-helds. You’ll know that was a gateway drug into base station mics when I’ve announced an ingenious way to hang a mic boom from a low ceiling.

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[WSAC829]

You bought because it was chrome, right?😉

Lol. No. Although you can get it in bronze and gold also (for more money). I actually bought it after DX-ing with a few guys in Florida, and one of them was swapping mics around and asking for feedback on what sounded best. As soon as he hooked up the M2 i was blown away. That sealed the deal for me. Thought it was a better idea than taking a chance on buying a used lollipop as the heads were known to go bad. Also the used prices online are insane, and most are untested units that cost more than the M2 does new.

 

[rf_patriot200]

Shure 526T

 

[kg4ehv]

Turner +3b...Oh yeah!

 

[buddrousa]

D104 Silver Eagle or D104 Golden Eagle

 

[Chris155]

I finally broke down a forked over what i considered to be way too much $$$ for a microphone. While not cheap, the Delta M2 is worth every penny. It can make your radio sound like you are using a studio mic, or if cranked up, like a channel 6 Super Bowler. I’ve gotten extremely good audio reports with it no matter what rig i attach it to.

This video doesn’t do it justice, but it gives you an idea of how much deeper and louder it is compared to the D104 lollipop which went out of production around 2001 IIRC.

A local guy here has one, it does sound good. I agree, sounds better and cleaner than a d104.

 

[buddrousa]

Back in the 70's I spent many hours working on my station 1.Audio 2.Power for a loud clear natural sounding voice and the end solution was Tram D201, D104 Silver Eagle, D&A Triple Stage Phantom and Avanti Moonraker 4 Beam.

 

[K9KLC]

Back in the 70's I spent many hours working on my station 1.Audio 2.Power for a loud clear natural sounding voice and the end solution was Tram D201, D104 Silver Eagle, D&A Triple Stage Phantom and Avanti Moonraker 4 Beam.

Yep, that would have got it done. I ran a D201 for a number of year and frankly, wish I would have hung on to it just for sentimental value. Regardless of what others say, that combination was hard to beat.

 

[buddrousa]

I wanted a Moonraker 6 but did not have room for it.

 

[Blackswan73]

The best sounding mic I ever had, which was not my opinion but the opinion of others that heard me on the air, was my Astatic 10DE7 “Silver Sidebander”. It was basically a TGU8 base with a 10DE7 dynamic head. Worked very well on my Icom IC-751a. Delta? Aren’t they the people who first sold echo mics?

B.S

 

[prcguy]

Shure 526T

I used to play with a lot of mics in the old days, Turner, Astatic, everything from the 70s on and the Shure 526T beats them all including rack mount processing and top of the line Heil mics and many Shure and EV commercial mics. During one mic session I had a well known tube audio designer here adjusting equalizers and compressors with a high end recording mic while he listened to my voice on a Harris RF-590 receiver with a very wide SSB filter and we were talking with At Bell, the famous AM broadcast guy on 40m. Art finally said "you have arrived, it sounds fantastic! Lock it down and never touch it!" Then as a sanity check I connected my Shure 526T back up and Art said "what did you just do, now it sounds even better!" Well there ya go. Just get a Shure 526T, they sound the same on every radio from a 1962 crystal controlled tube CB set to the latest Anytone AT-5555 NII. But you want the older 526T with thick straight cable and not the newer thin coiled cable.

 

[WSAC829]

I loved Art Bell back when i drove for a living. Great show.