Ordered Friday he arrived six days later, after the scheduled date was 10 days, which is a good thing (I live abroad more ...) At the packaging level, nothing wrong; sober, clean, my only regret is that, for some unknown reason, the box has been modified with a big sticker with the description / specifications in German. Nothing too serious, but I do not see the utility nor the purpose of this sticker since I made my order on amazon fr ... Then at the opening of the box, the micro awaits you, before you, in the manner of an Apple product. That's all Zoli, and in addition UBS Mini-USB cable (it seems to me still quite essential to provide) you have a small pouch, convenient to take your micro mop with you. The cable also fit, but I think it may scratch the microphone with his tips. According to the microphone, nothing but the level design / build quality, it's just exceptional. The finish is more than perfect (even better than the Blue Yeti is said), and the micro inspires confidence with its all metal design, it is not likely to break (physically anyway) anytime soon. Go to grumble a little (but really history bitching what) bonded to the surface pads of the feet probably will pull away with time, but it would be easy to pick them. According to the design itself, we like it or not like; I personally liked the design of microphones 60-70 mixture combined with the feet which gives it almost a spaceship look. Finally, in terms of sound, it's just absolutely excellent, or even beat, for the same price; he ALMOST (I said almost) as good as the records Yeti, but still, it is almost twice as expensive as the Meteor on Amazon, so it is not really surprising. A small complaint, too, is that the lack some volume, but with any audio editing software / video you can easily solve this problem.
Conclusion: If you need a microphone with excellent value for money, and you are not a professional singer or a podcaster known around the world for your videos, this micro amply meet your needs. I think with a much lower price than its great rival, the Yeti, it almost equal in sound, and in my opinion surpasses the level of design and manufacturing quality. So you can buy with your eyes closed if you're tired of using the microphone to your computer!
PS: This microphone is compatible with the iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch, if you use the Camera Connection Kit, it can be useful if you move a lot.
EDIT: After a long week of good big use, I find the micro always good, but small detail, it scratches very easily, which is absolutely not annoying at her, but hey, I thought it was useful to clarify.
EDIT 2: After 6 months of very frequent use, I find this microphone always good. However, as I already mentioned there is a bit of time, micro scratches, but it "catches" also easily fingerprints; mine is now wiped off everywhere, and the slightest touch is dirty (hey, it is not a problem in itself, but when you have a beautiful mic like this we must say that it's nice to see him shine ). From what I've seen, they released a matte black model; the pictures, the metal used for the latter looks much stronger, and even though it is a bit more expensive (4 euros at the time of writing this review) it will probably longer, visually speaking . I therefore definitely recommend this model, and if in addition you can afford to offer it in black, it will follow you undoubtedly a good time!
