Telefunken ELA M101/1

Name: Telefunken ELA M101/1
Brand: Telefunken

Manufacturer:

Telefunken

Model:

ELA M101/1

Country of Manufacture:

Germany

Microphone Type:

Carbon

Polar Pattern:

Omnidirectional

Production Start Year:

1934

Production End Year:

1938

Rarity:

Audio Recording:

Speech (male) recorded with the Telefunken ELA M101/1 carbon microphone.

Size: 1.7 MBFormat: MP3

Multiple quality options available

Microphone History:

The first references we have found to this microphone is in a German catalogue from Woldemar Schmolke, Dresden, dated 1934, page 48. It is referred to simply as "Telefunken-Kammermikrofon". In 1935 Telefunken offered four microphones for sale in their catalogue, which were:

'Amateur' microphone Ela M64 (*RM 27)

Chamber microphone Ela M46 (Without stand - RM 45)

Ribbon microphone Ela M25 (RM 342)

Condenser microphone Ela M14 (RM 735). This appears to be a rebranded Neumann CMV3 bottle microphone.

Our M101/1 seems to be nearly identical to the M46 and was perhaps a minor revision or an updated numbering system when they switched to using three digits.

*RM Refers to a ReichsMark, which was worth about 40 US cents in 1935. 'Kammermikrofon' translates as 'Chamber microphone'.

Technical Description:

Translated from an advertisement in the 1936/36 catalog of Radio-Web, Berlin.

Amateur microphone Ela M 64. A very reasonably priced carbon microphone, ideally suited for supplementing radio sets for simple announcements in PA systems and similar applications. It can be connected directly to any radio set or amplifier and is powered by a standard flashlight battery, which—along with the microphone transformer and on/off switch—is housed within the wooden casing.

Chamber microphone Ela M 46. A carbon microphone that, thanks to its outstanding quality, is also suitable for transmitting high-quality music. The special advantage of this innovative design is that this high-quality microphone requires no preamplifier, but instead fully drives standard radio sets and amplifiers. The chamber microphone features a very wide frequency range, low non-linear distortion, and significantly suppressed background noise. The microphone can be suspended via a spring mount in the matching table stand (Ela 710.) The base of this stand features a thread compatible with any standard camera tripod.