Home > Consumer Reviews > Sony ECMHW1 Bluetooth Wireless Microphone for DVR-DVD405, 505, HDR-SR1, UX1 & DCR-SR60, SR80, SR100 Camcorders

We'd all like our amateur videos to look and sound more professional. In most cases, this involves more expensive equipment and more tedious "staging". This little gadget improves the "sound imaging" without a lot of work. When the microphone is placed close to the source, it makes for a more professional-sounding video (I guess that's why they use boom mikes and remote mikes for the "professional stuff"). My high-tech son is impressed with the audio quality, considering that it's Bluetooth.

Fast shipping, works great. The only issue is that it is mono which could be a problem for some people. I am very happy with its sound quality.

I bought it for my HDR-XR500V and found out it was also the cure for my HDR-SR5 that has no mic or earphone jacks.I use the stereo mode more often than the 5.1 surround sound. It sounds a little cleaner to me. I would reccomend this to anyone looking for a resonably priced quality wireless mic for their Sony.

I bought his bluetooth microphone to use on my Sony DVR-DVD403 camcorder anticipating that it would work on my unit since it had a hot shoe similar to the 405 model... and it did. It worked beautifully for picking up the audio from a solo performer who sang and played a guitar. I was about 70-80 ft away up in the balcony with the microphone clipped to the music stand in front of the performer. The audio came thru nice and clear, but unfortunately it also picked a lot of the background noise of waiters picking up dishes, etc. since the performance was near the end of dinner.

Just to clarify: the photo shows the microphone looking like the size of a deck of playing cards or cigarettes. I was so pleased when it arrived and the microphone was the size of a small box of matches (1/3 to 1/4 of what I feared). The transmitter isn't very large either. We haven't hooked it up yet to see how it will perform.