Ah! That reminded me that I had a Dayton iMM-6 (very similar to yours) hiding at the back of a shelf. Thanks! I have downloaded the calibration file and converted it to Audacity format... The ECM8000 does look a lot prettier though...
I'm using one of these: https://micbooster.com/product/xlr-mono ... icrophone/ with a wind/muffler/thingy into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 powered by this linear supply and then into a Pi4B running latest bookworm, Docker and BirdNET-PiPy which, IMHO, is dead sexy.
pre65 wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 12:23 pm
My heating oil tank is at a very low level, so I've bit the bullet and ordered some.
500 litres at £682.50
We paid 245 for 500 ltr back in feb (Oil Club). Luckily we don't really need it as it only powers the Aga, which we almost never use nowadays. It's only turned on these days for big family gatherings when extra ovens are good, or when there's extended power cuts...
The chap on the next table had a Roksan Xerxes turntable with an SME V. He counted the Roksan as scrap and wanted £1500, realistically purely for the SME. He got £1400, proving that some people go to these events with serious money in their pockets. I thought of taking my AVO VCM163 to Crawley, but didn't. It could have cuddled up to Jack's Hickock and murmered naughty things. It got its biannual outing a day later testing some valves.
