[MV] Microphones

[T. Patrick Henebry]

On 7/7/03 3:04 PM, "Camner" <camner at iname.com> wrote:

> Initially, I use the Andrea ANC-7100 mic that came with of ViaVoice.  It did
> not work terribly well.

Camner,

A point of clarification please: I assume you mean the NC-7100 USB
microphone? I have ViaVoice for Mac OS X and one of these microphones.

There is no ANC-7100 USB microphone. Andrea Electronics only uses the ANC
designation for headsets that have a second microphone element for active
noise cancellation.

> Martin's current recommendation for a good microphone is the Parrott TalkPro
> Xpress,  which also requires a USB converter (either the Andrea USB pod or
> the Griffin iMic seem to work).

Interesting, I have not tried a TalkPro Xpress with the Griffin iMic yet.

> I have also tried all these microphones with iListen. Only the Parrott
> microphone seems to work well. The Andrea ANC-650/750 microphones simply do
> not have enough gain to allow IListen to work.

Correct. In fact MacSpeech now says not to use Andrea Electronics
microphones, either the NC or ANC models, due to insufficient gain. They do
say however that using an Andrea Electronics USB pd is OK.