BS 5942-5 discusses high fidelity audio equipment and systems and minimum performance requirements with a focus on specifications for microphones.
BS 5942-5 is the fifth part of the multi-series on high fidelity audio equipment and systems that applies to microphones, primarily intended for high quality reproducing systems for home use. BS 5942-5 specifies objectives to lay down the minimum requirements for microphones.
BS 5942-5 on high fidelity audio equipment and systems is useful for:
A microphone is a device that translates sound vibrations in the air into electronic signals or scribes them to a recording medium. Microphones enable many types of audio recording devices for purposes including communications of many kinds, as well as music and speech recording.
The frequency response requirement is defined in two stages: a type frequency response is specified and then the permissible deviations of the response of an individual microphone from that type frequency response.
BS 5942-5 discusses frequency response, the difference between the sensitivities of microphones used for stereophony, directional pattern, front-to-random sensitivity index (for directional microphones only), overload sound pressure, rated equivalent sound pressure level due to inherent noise, free-field sensitivity, and other characteristics and requirements. This will help you to understand the microphones, primarily intended for high quality reproducing systems for home use.
With obedience and compliance to BS 5942-5, you can enhance the microphone’s effectiveness and efficacy and manufacture a standardized product.
IEC 60581-5:1981