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Default repairing an electret microphone

In article ,
Arfa Daily wrote:
I've never found them to be particularly heat sensitive within common
sense limits, but note that they are polarity sensitive, as they
contain a FET preamp which is phantom powered via the output terminal
...


A few electret mic are phantom powered but the majority use a form of AB
power for the capsule.

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