XIIVIO USB Conference Microphone

Like many, I've found myself taking all of my meetings in my home office. Until now, I have relied on my built-in microphone, however, a recent call with an honest colleague forced me to look elsewhere to improve the quality of my sound. Since I find myself leading most of the meetings I, unfortunately, have to attend, I wanted to replace my lackluster built-in microphone with something that sounds a bit better than talking while someone grinds coffee in the background. Enter, this microphone.Setup? What setup. Plug it in, change your device settings to default to the mic, and you're off to the races.Sound quality? Surprisingly great. I switched computers with my wife for a quick call just to test it out for myself and was pleasantly surprised with the clarity, volume, and background noise reduction. It sounds about like a good quality phone call from about 2' away, and can filter out the background noise we've all come to 'love' in the current at-home work environment, such as partner doing the dishes or kids yelling at Netflix to hurry up and start the next episode.I also love that there's a mute button directly on the unit as it stops me from having to open back up my Teams window to mute myself if I'm on another screen doing something or presenting. One flaw, if you want to call it that, is that it doesn't toggle your mute setting in your meeting app, so if someone flushes their toilet while unmuted people may think you're the culprit.All in all this is an extremely solid little microphone that has me impressed at its low price tag. Highly recommend.

Great straightforward microphone. Good value for money.Recording quality is superieur to microphone from webcams and major improvement as people can hear really well what I say, even when I don’t raise my voice.Button on the mic is a hardware mute and does not control the software mute on Team/Skype/Zoom.The cable is of good length. Allowing me to move the mic around if needed.For Windows 10 this mic is truly plug&play.One issue I encountered with Teams is that Windows seems to automatically reduce the input volume to 0. Making it look like the mic is not working. This is windows, not the mic. As some reason a bug in Windows causes the input level slider (in Windows Audio setting) to go all the way to 0. Putting the slider back to 100 doesn’t work, as windows adjusts it’s back to 0.Work around: do a test call in MS Teams with this Mic as the primary input device. Change the primary input and output devices *during* the test call.Complete the test call and use Teams as normal. Do *not* change the input or output devices in Teams (via the other audio configuration options outside the test call) or you’ll trigger Windows to start adjusting the input volume and causes the issue above.Other than the software bug, this is a great little mic.

I bought this so I could use this for collective zoom calls where I needed people who were not near the laptop to be able to be heard. It does a good job picking up voices and cutting background noise. The only draw back is that when someone is speaking and there is background noise, it can cut out. Other than that, it works well, much better than my laptop mic for picking up voices from across the room and fairly good price, too.

I've been using this microphone almost daily for two years. Mostly used in MS Teams meetings and I've had no issues. Everyone can hear me clearly. I was able to stop using a headset and that is awesome and freeing.

Since gatherings in person have become largely taboo, my wife and I have set up a computer in our dining room that we use to video conference with family and friends. We already had a USB microphone that works well for one person, but we needed something that would work with two people and wouldn't make us crowd together or pass a handheld mic back and forth. The built-in microphone in our web camera just wasn't good enough, nor was the built-in mic in the laptop.So I bought this conference microphone. And it works amazingly well. It doesn't seem to matter if we're right near it or forty feet away. I can step into the kitchen to grab a snack, and keep talking. Everyone on the other end still hears me clearly. Tried a sound test where I started recording, walked into the living room, then came back, talking the whole time. Playback through the PC speakers was crystal clear, as if I hadn't even walked away.The mute button works as intended. The cord is pretty long. Before we realized just how good the pickup is on this microphone, I was placing it in the center of the table between the two of us. Now I just leave it by the computer with the cord coiled.

I love how small it is on my computer desk. Sound quality is ok but could have been better for 40 bucks. Has no volume control or on/off switch, just a mute button. Since it's always on, you can't leave it plugged in because it will feed back through the speakers like crazy every time you boot up your pc. Probably woke up the neighbors. They should have made it to start disabled as the default on boot-up: I envision the mute button flashing on and off when you start your computer to tell you it's in stand-by mode, and you can press the button to turn it on (I wish it worked that way). That's how I would have designed it. Since I don't plan on doing that much video chatting or starting a Youtube channel, I think I can live with a microphone that I can only plug in when I'm going to use it.