Marantz Pro Umpire

bought for on-line conferences and interviews from any OS (linux, macOS, windows 7 & 10, raw input - no processing) - large diaphragm will catch any voice intonation at 2m and approx. 60 degrees, allowing multi-person audio conference while keeping the social distance - it will catch also the background noise, so I often use the -10db switch which tends to attenuate basses more than mediums & trebles and reduces distance to 45-60cm; large and rather heavy base with elastic shock mounts and non-removable, but long enough USB type A cable: nothing to assemble, (almost) nothing to adjust, nothing to lose, just plug it in and broadcast; it doesn't have direct headphone output, but for its price category the product offers sound quality comparable to more sophisticated ones, in a compact(ish) packaging

So I wanted any cheap talking microphone for my desktop computer and this one happened to be in sale for half price. For 20€ it is great.

Bad things: There is no mute/power switch. if connected to USB it's always on. The stand, pop screen frame, mic and usb cable are an integrated item, the pop screen is removeble but the microphone is not designed to be used with any other mic stand and the USB cable is fixed. Also annoying blue light at center of mic (bit of opaque tape helped with that). The elastic suspending bands attaching the microphone to stand are rather flimsy and I managed to knock some flying once and had to crawl on floor to find em.

Good things: Getting W11 to believe it exist was not a great struggle. The sound quality of mic is not at all bad. It can pick talking from far longer than kissing distance. It's pretty good at rejecting noise from sides, it's usable with loudspeakers at moderate volume without flipping the -10Db switch. I have computer monitor bit raised so for me it's not in way between screen and behind keyboard.

Overall It does the job I got it for just fine and was not expensive.