Huh, didn't see that one coming.

Wow I just bought one of these for my kid a few weeks ago the snowball model.I read they make some of the best mics on the market.

Was looking at Blue,heard they're good,but decided to go with Audiotechnica instead.

nz3777:

Wow I just bought one of these for my kid a few weeks ago the snowball model.I read they make some of the best mics on the market.

They aren't bad for the price - definitely better than typical "gaming" headset mics.. but they are nowhere near the best on the market.

Very average mics. The one I had an auto-mute feature and only activated when u spoke. Problem was it missed half of the first word and sometimes would only turn on halfway through a sentence.

Pimpiklem:

copper wire a magnet and a diaphragm and a cable

The principle of operation is simple, indeed... however it's very difficult to get it right, to capture as much as the sound spectrum correctly, without distortion, without electric artifacts, without that annoying hiss, and also be sensitive enough to capture details of the sound, things which aren't shouted right into the microphone. To this day microphones are still WAY off the capability of human ear. Much to learn still...

Pimpiklem:

117 million dollars 6" copper wire a magnet and a diaphragm and a cable All FOR 117 Mill lmao https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRr1CjfKhL-SyYOqSWenST1maDtRO8MH0cCGZKg-VvcrPkHa1jHIg

And you're clueless. They make great mics and obviously there's a lot more to it than copper wire and a magnet.

Yakk:

Looks like logitech bought a company with good marketing/hype & ok product. Actually it's good product for their target market. Seems like a good deal for them instead of starting from zero building their brand in this market.

Exactly

EJocys:

Microphone technology is 191 years old. Most accurate microphone probably is million times more capable than human ear and can count air atoms hitting the detector 🙂. It is more about price, quality and the fact that world is full of shitty and low quality products.

Nope. No such microphone. That's something quite different. And the world is also full of shitty and clueless, low quality opinions.

Irenicus:

And the world is also full of shitty and clueless, low quality opinions.

You took the words out of my mouth 😉 To explain to @EJocys a bit what I'm talking about: It's the DYNAMIC RANGE of human eyes and ears, which hasn't yet been matched either by video sensors, or by microphones. Dynamic range means the receiver (eye, ear) can detect signals which are both very faint, but also very strong, without being completely overloaded (or below the detection threshold). Keeping it to the microphones, yes, there are some specialized scientific microphones who can detect pressures lower than 20 micropascals (which is considered minimum level that a healthy human -might- hear), but a simple clap of hands would completely destroy that microphone, as it's membrane would shatter. On the other hand, there are microphones that can record very loud noises correctly (used for testing aircraft turbines and other industrial processes), but you could scream into them and barely register. There is not one single microphone, no matter how special or expensive, that can cover even a small percentage of human hearing pressure range without distorting the sound. We are wonderful bio-machines, and we should learn to appreciate that !

I dont use it bought for my little girl,we have blue mic (snowball ice) Audio technica x30s and Soundblaster recon 3d soundcard, overall her system is pretty good no cheep 2nd hand stuff. She kept nagging me she wanted a mic so I showed her that one she picked it on her own based on looks,We got the black one-It does look really neat I must admit espically the tripod that holds it up.