Date: 12/12/25 7:18 pm From: Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Merlin mic
Thanks for that Mic info. I got Costco hearing aids a year or so ago and
suddenly I was able to hear bids i had not heard in years
BUT, it seemed impossible to determine the direction of the bird sound.
AND Merlin with my Samsung S25+ still hears WAY more birds than I do. And
I'm glad of it. I cannot hear Brown Creepers at all and it picks them up
all the time.
Always helpful to get more information about 'Hearing while Birding'.
Thanks for posting
Bob OBrien Portland
On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM BRAD Liljequist via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got all excited about using a mic with my phone for Merlin - I bought
> both Sennheiser MKE 200 and 600's. To be honest, they help, but not in a
> transformative way. That, combined with my wife's worry that someone would
> think I have a gun in my hand (!) has resulted in me not using them much.
> It does seem like the phone mics (mine a Samsung) do pretty well. I do
> still wonder about a parabolic mic but that's going into full geekdom, and
> I have enough of that elsewhere in my life.
>
> Brad Liljequist
> Seattle, WA, USA
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