Shure: what they publish

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This page does not review anything Shure makes. It counts one thing: how much of what this database says about their products came out of their own documents, and how much had to be worked out or left blank.

Where each sensitivity figure came from

ModelImpedanceSensitivitySource of the figure
AONIC 326 Ω108.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
AONIC 47 Ω106.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
AONIC 536 Ω119.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SE21517 Ω107.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SE31527 Ω116.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SE42522 Ω109.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SE53536 Ω119.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SE8469 Ω114.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH14534 Ω100.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH154046 Ω99.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH184065 Ω96.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH240A38 Ω107.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH440A40 Ω97.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH840A40 Ω97.0 dB/mWPublished per mW
SRH94042 Ω100.0 dB/mWPublished per mW

Impedance is almost always printed. Sensitivity is the one that goes wrong, because a decibel figure means two very different things depending on whether it is per milliwatt or per volt — about five decibels apart at 300 Ω and eighteen at 16 Ω. The conversion is here.

  • Published per mW — 15: the maker prints a decibel figure per milliwatt, which is what the database stores

What the paperwork adds up to

Almost everything this site says about Shure came from them. That is not the normal case and it is worth saying out loud.

The rule used here is the same for every maker and is described on the manufacturer index. Every figure behind it can be opened on the product page it came from, with the document it came from linked.