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Tiny speakers?

Started Nov 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
ProfHankD
ProfHankD Veteran Member • Posts: 9,147
Re: Tiny speakers?

Walt Palmer wrote:

Quality would not be very good that way....

Based on what? This has never been done. How do you know what it would sound like? The only existing improvements to the GX85 audio involve building a partial version of this, trying to limit direction to the front. This encloses the front as well.

What do you suggest that could be better?

Recording reproduced audio always takes a big hit.  I've tried that sort of thing more than a few times and it's never been good. Passive shrouding of a built-in mic might help, but is likely to interfere with imaging (sound location cues).

It probably wouldn't be too hard to open the body and wire to the mic inputs, but I think the best answer is simply to get a camera that has mic inputs or record audio separately -- which is actually a lot easier than it might seem.

As you probably already know from my other posts here, I'm not at all hesitant to modify things, but there has to be sufficient expected benefit to justify the effort... and I just don't see that here. Feel free to prove my gut instinct about this wrong. 

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