Scott Dorsey wrote:

For the most part, the 2003 will be worse off-axis than the others. None
of these mikes is really optimized for distant miking.

Do you have data to support that or have you done comparative listening
tests varying the angle?

As far as pattern, it doesn't matter as much as people usually opine.
Using XY, the extreme of hypercardiod is a figure 8 and with that
pattern one gets a Blumlein configuration.

While you will hear a difference comparatively with varied patterns, it
isn't about good or bad, better or worse but more about preference.


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

A. Einstein