Posted by Jan Panteltje on 07/13/07 15:28

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:08:45 -0400) it happened "Arny Krueger"
<arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote in <S76dnb8oWso5CArbnZ2dnUVZ_umlnZ2d@comcast.com>:

>"Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" <mweissX294@earthlink.net> wrote in
>message news:7_Cfi.319661$NO1.815@fe05.news.easynews.com
>
>> Needless to say, I think Sony has a major issue to
>> correct with these cameras. It's worse than the PD150
>> hiss problem. In all other respects, the V1U audio is
>> acceptable. s/n is pretty good for a camera, but there's
>> no excuse to roll off the low end at 1222Hz. Look at
>> these results, carefully measured under laboratory
>> conditions:
>>
>> http://www.basspig.com/HVR-V1U_PCM_Audio(DV).htm
>
>You have been mislead by a vastly expanded vertical dB scale.
>
>The actual -3 dB point is about 130 Hz. The rolloff is hard to judge because
>of the expanded scale, but does not seem to be overly rapid. Not all that
>great, but about an order of magnitude better than you have been mislead to
>believe.
>
>This camera won't be all that bad for voice and most music.

It is crap.

>It is not the
>tool of choice for recording big pipe organs, bass guitars or other
>instruments with deeper significant bass fundamentals.

In a [concert] hall there are _always_ lower responses.
use a spectrum analyser.

>However, an octave or
>two of additional bass could be restored with some well-thought out
>equalization.

That is crap, would amplify noise and hum only.

I have no idea why Sony cut of LF that way, maybe it was a new designer
who well you know, or to get rid of noises from the camera?

Flat to 20Hz is the least one should expect, and for 4000$ or more I
would not expect anything less then the best.

It is just about as intelligent as their PS3 marketing.

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