On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:04:39 GMT, "MikeM" wrote:

>My unit was supposedly manufactured after the notorious "hiss"
>problem associated with the PD150.
>
>However...I do hear a noticable hiss, or rather "swoosh" sound,
>the volume of which is directly tied to the level of the gain setting.
>
>At first I thought is was an artifact of the mic itself. But this 'swoosh'
>sound is there even with no mic attached!
>
>Is this normal? I would think a camera of this caliber would be able
>to produce clean sound, without any built-in hiss sound in it's audio
>circuit.
>
>I would be most happy to hear from other PD150 owners to hear what
>the audio sounds like on their units...

If you cannot hear this noise with normal playback levels
using the line-outs and good, smooth, wide-range playback
gear (likely, unless there is a defect), then regard what
you hear through the headphone amp (noisy) with the gain up
(not realistic in practice) and open inputs (noisier then
when loaded) as artifacts of monitoring/experimenting,
but not characteristics of the typical final sound quality,
which is normally very good with this camera...