Fig. 1: Diagrams from Wente’s 1916 patent application show the condenser microphone in cutaway view. Diaphragm (#6), which is grounded, is stretched only 5/10000th of an inch from the backplate (#7), ...

This video presentation provides an overview of CUI Inc’s Electret Condenser Microphones, including an introduction to electret condenser microphone technology and its working principles. It discusses ...

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Using a speaker as a microphone is a trick old enough to have become common knowledge, but how often do you see the hack reversed? As part of a larger project to measure the acoustic power of a ...

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Microphones can be found just about everywhere nowadays. Most people reading this article will have a cell phone in their pocket which uses a microphone to transmit an audio signal to other phones all ...