Hi Robin,

Unfortunately we can only ship to the United States at this time.  Product compliance laws are tricky, expensive to deal with and vary by country.  If anyone else internationally has interest, please continue to let us know.  Even if we don't ship internationally yet, it may sway us in the future.

There is some sample audio at the bottom of this page, comparing Owl Sense to a Primo EM172 microphone side by side.

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Our original high performance, low cost bioacoustic recorder for passive research. Owl Sense wildlife audio recorders are designed for mass scale and low cost deployments.

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Nice to see you mention the primo EM172 mic capsules. Those are the ones that I use with my pi based recorder. They are the gold standard I think.  But no mems microphone is going to be able to reach that same quality I think. At least none that I’ve seen.

Sounds like your made a mighty fine product.

Thanks Kim.  Primo makes some good microphones and undeniably they are going to be better than any MEMS microphone.  I do think folks underestimate what MEMS can do these days.  Infineon really did some remarkable work with their IM73D122 microphone.  It's significantly better than what's in an AudioMoth and even though its rated at the same SNR of a WA Micro, it subjectively sounds much better to me and others I've talked to.  I'm excited to see what Infineon launches next, they've been leading the way with MEMS mics the last few years.  Fortunately, Owl Sense is designed with a separate microphone board with the goal of offering better user-replaceable microphones when they are available!

The figures come very close to the primo mic. When I looked into this a couple of years ago I don’t recall seeing one come this close.