Measurement of microphone nonlinear behavior has always been a challenging task due to a lack of linear acoustic sources. A recently developed technique that corrects a distorted output signal of an excitation device using predistortion of its input signal is used in this work. Thanks to this technique, a spectrally clean sinusoidal acoustic pressure is generated inside a closed box in which the microphone under test is placed together with a low-distortion reference microphone. The goal of this paper is twofold. First, show that the direct measurement of distortion is possible even for high-pressure levels; second, compare the harmonic distortion of several types of microphones such as studio electrostatic and electrodynamic microphones, MEMS microphones and laboratory microphones.