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In article writes:

The Neumann M 50 and its successors aren't large-diaphragm--they're small-
diaphragm pressure microphones with the transducer embedded in the surface
of a Lucite sphere.

Okay, I'd call the M50 a large diaphragm, in that it's large enough for
off-axis response effects to exist, but that's just me.

Maybe we've just become too accustomed to classifying microphones by
diaphragm size ("large" and "small") because it's so easy for a novice
(and a salesdoofus) to see. Now if someone would only come up with an
abbreviation that describes the off-axis response of a microphone in
sufficient detail that's as simple as "LDC", we'd be all set. We can
then talk about them without doing allllllllll that extry typing.

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