Rossi
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Since I noticed there are some guys on this board who know a lot about electronics, perhaps there's someone who can answer this question: Is SMD electronics inferior to conventinal electronics? The reason why I'm asking is that I had a dispute with the German distributor of Nevaton microphones. In their newer models they introduced SMD electronics. I wasn't convinced they could keep up the quality of their microphones that way. Most microphone electronics use a lot of capacitors, and, given the space limitations of SMD technology, I don't think you can use first rate film capacitors but must resort to smaller tantalum types. For all I know (which isn't much, to be honest) you shouldn't use tantalum capacitors in audio equipment. Still, the distributor insisted that there was no difference in quality between SMD and conventional technology. So who's right? Does anybody know?