02-DSKSYS-D xTag Wireless Microphone with USB Base for a Personal Computer

Purchased this for work to record live seminars and presentations. It works fantastic and is the best deal going. Haven't had any issues with range or sound quality. It's not the absolute best microphone, but it's the lowest price solution to the problem. If you need to record live seminars or presentations, I highly recommend.

Internal battery a great boon. Auto cutoff minimizes need to recharge. Keyboard a dream and magnetic cover a neat feature

I bought this mic for sound reinforcement in the classroom after the students at the back of the room complained that my voice was trailing off during lectures. Now I simply clip the mic to my collar, plug the USB into my laptop, and my voice is projected over the room's AV system. It was effortless to set up and use on my Mac. I also record my lectures: I was using a separate battery-operated voice recorder, which meant I had to juggle SD cards after class to copy the files onto my laptop; now, I use Audio Hijack Pro to capture the audio stream coming off the xTag. Everything works very smoothly. My only reservation concerns audio quality. This device is based on the DECT standard that is the basis of most current cordless phones. As such, it uses a pretty low bitrate, and a fairly simple digital encoding scheme. The result is a voice signal that is fine for projecting in a (relatively noisy) classroom, but gives recordings with audible quantization noise. The voice bandwidth is 7 kHz (better than telephone, but worse than FM radio), and the encoding (I believe) is 4-bit ADPCM. I estimate the SNR to be about 40-45 dB, similar to a medium-quality voice memo recorder. That's one big difference between this and the $500+ wireless mics from professional mic manufacturers like Sennheiser and Shure. However, the quality is fine for reinforcing and recording speech, and the ease of setup and use, and tiny size and weight of both mic and base-station/USB interface, make this a very nice product.

Product was broken and/or faulty out of the new box. Likely a battery issue, but I am uncertain. I requested a refund or replacement with a working product. I will update this review with details about the refund process and customer service.

I need to conduct meetings that include large groups face to face and a number who call in remotely through a web based interface. This microphone worked flawlessly! It allowed me and the other presenters to move around the room and for all remote participants to hear at all times. Worked as advertised.

Great technology, super easy to use, but I've had 6 of these and all break after a year or two. Not a durable product and it's $75 to even get a tech to look at it, not really worth it when similar mics cost that much to buy. I wish they would invest in making this a more durable product.

If you are using this device for dictation purposes, it works fairly well. I also use a wired headset and the headset performs slightly better, but not dramatically so. I also wanted to use this device for talking on Skype and that is where I think that this device's design is not well thought out. The main issue is that they decided to put the the input jack for the headphone on the bottom of the mic right where the device attaches to the charger base. This means that everytime you want to use the device with the earpiece, you need to plug the earpiece in. Everytime you want to charge the mic, you need to unplug the earpiece. Also there is no on/off switch so you need to keep the mic in the charger, or else it will die pretty quickly. Good product if you are just looking for a wireless mic, not so good if you also want to use the earpiece too.

Just as expected; arrival on time, in good shape. Thank you.

Worked as expected; needs to be charged regularly. Good quality audio for a USB wireless microphone.

Item was received as promised with no issues. Happy with my purchase. Will repeat buying from this seller in the future.