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NeenerMan
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Aug 16, 2015
I own this microphone. I use it to power 47 ohm ATH-M20x studio monitors, the DAC in the microphone only produces 16 bit audio but is barely noticeable when compared side by side to a 24 bit DAC. Sound quality is great for the price. You will not need a pop filter unless you are within 3 to 4 inches of the microphone. It is USB so you don't get as warm of a sound as XLR. The blue LED is bright, I covered it with a Hyper X sticker from the box of RAM sticks I got for my computer. Even then it only dims the light. It's nothing to keep you from buying the microphone. It's survived a fall off of a 3 foot tall desk, hit wood, hit wood and then carpet. Has fallen over. 0 Issues. The closer you are to the microphone the fuller and warmer your voice becomes. The 3.5mm headphone jack has enough space around it for decently large (not guitar 1/4 inch large) jacks. The tripod is..... Meh. It works. Not really in the way on a medium sized desk with wires, a mid tower PC, tools, a phone, papers, PC cable, a digital cable TV converter and more junk. The USB cable provided is thick, some what stiff but easily bendable and holds a certain shape if it stays in one spot long enough. The volume buttons are useful and If you have 100$ to spend on a mic. Get this and the proper mounting for it. With a flimsy desk, a shock mount is needed, on a solid, older, thick wooden desk, not very much so. You can hear yourself with the microphone with 0 latency if you do choose to plug headphones into the mic. It does have a DAC so you will be able to use this as an output device. Compared to a Fiio D03k DAC (its...small but works) being only 16 bit, it's sound is not as accurate and ass full as 24 bit sound. Compared to an AT-2020... Well it's blatantly silver with an obnoxiously bright blue light with very similar sound quality plus volume buttons and sound output.... AT-2020 USB, sound quality is very similar but compared to XLR, the XLR 2020 is warmer and more natural sounding. You may form your own opinions. I don't own both.
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