Found this DIY PCB in aliexpress for tlm103 / Lewit 240. Anyone have bought it and tried it?

[jacson]

Title says it so here's the product

 

[Khron]

No..?

Probably gonna be noisy as a storm anyway, with zero f**ks given about the high-impedance areas of the circuit...

 

[FetMe?FetU!]

Title says it so here's the product
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I wondered about this board and others on one particular AliExpress store. Shop1103438610 Store - https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807730617507.html?

Also, there is a U47 PCB at https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805096438667.html.

I see that one other reply to your query has been negative because the board is likely so noisy. I don't doubt the member's knowledge and ability to look at a picture and determine whether a PCB will likely be good—a valuable skill, to be sure— akin to being able to site-read sheet music. I'm not being snarky. Being able to do this is impressive.

I want to ask Khron or other experienced members if they have recommendations for a decent yet affordable premade PCB. That would be very valuable information to me, and I'm sure others.

I've also read forums where members recommend donor bodies from really cheap microphones. I assumed, apparently incorrectly, that these cheap donor microphones would use similarly bad PCBs like this one since almost all of them come from China.

I've seen recommendations for Sterling, Scarlett, and even generic BM-800 condenser microphones as good candidates for donor use.

I'm looking for a candidate to house an Arienne Flat47 capsule. I have an empty and fake BCM-705 shell, I would like Frankenstein into a good-sounding microphone with a Flat47. I picked it up at a swap meet for almost nothing. I like the body look. Who wouldn't? It's a Neumann design. I know this model was meant to house dynamic guts, but it's pretty roomy, and I think it would work. It's scratched to hell and back but no dents. I thought of giving it a metallic red and gold kind of Iron Man paint job.