Looking for a compatible microphone - need advice

The HW audio codec is realtek rt5631.

Mauritz Jameson  <mjames2393@gmail.com> wrote:

>The HW audio codec is realtek rt5631.

Having some spare time on my hands, I checked on the Realtek websites
(both US and Taiwan) and one needs to register as a developer
to gain access to their specs.  (Why? Almost nobody else does this.)

In any case, you can almost certainly set the gain in the mic
signal path, to interface with most plausible microphones; the only
question is whether the noise (either internal to the Codec chip,
or picked up through the unshielded header and its wires) is
so large as to rule out less-sensitive microphones.

I also idly looked at the Sony website and as alluded to upstream,
electret microphones seems to be about 20 dB more sensitive than
dynamic mics.  (Of course this is because they contain an amplifier.)

The thing is, a dynamic microphone is more rugged, requires no power,
and were I fiddling with a setup over the course of days or weeks, I 
would prefer a more physically stable microphone.


Steve