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It depends. On a lot of things, but mostly on the particular microphone. Phantom power in general is not evil for almost all dynamic mics who don't need it, but if you for instance plug a ribbon mic in a phantom powered input without switching it off first, you might just destroy the microphone completely. You will most likely find the answer inside the ...

It really depends on your equipment. The Neutrik combo connector has separate connectors for the XLR and TRS pins, so it depends on whether the digital recorder in your setup feeds phantom power to both the XLR and the TRS pins. For such instances, this thread might be of help, although I've never tried it myself and you'll have to open your device and get ...

In my opinion, your audio card would wear out first, being the most complicated piece of equipment which also continually produces the 48V voltage. Secondly, the FET inside the microphone would wear out, and the mic capsule for last. It seems to me that the capsule in this mic is quite sturdy, as it can withstand 131dB! In other words: the microphone ...

Phantom power is usually relatively harmless. Most of the danger consist when people have their mic-lines normalled on the patchbay and are crosspatching. As said, refer to the documentation on that particular microphone. As a rule of thumb older ribbons might be completely unprotected (ie. absence of transformer or some kind of protection diode (quoting ...