What is this for? Improving sound quality?
2045655
When you talk, tiny particles of saliva can come out. If these get into a microphone, it can make a "pop" sound. It helps stop that from happening, and seems to do a fairly good job if it's positioned right. Though this particular one was a bit hard to attach.
2045656
It's so you don't get a lot of feedback when you are using the mic and also isn't good to use a mic without it.
2045657
It will reduce the effects of "popping" due to your voice hitting the microphone. It will reduce the impact making it much clearer
2045658
This device improves sound quality by helping prevent the impact of "plosives." These are low-frequency noises created when certain words such as "pop" or "box" are spoken. (Look up the definition of "plosive" on Wikipedia.) These create a brief pressure wave that impacts the microphone with enough force as to create a "boom" or "thump" sound. The actual impact heard depends on the microphone, the bass response of the system, the distance to the sound source, and the overall volume level. Some people speak with more plosive impact than others. Condenser microphones such as the Blue Yeti are particularly sensitive to plosives because of their low frequency response and the sensitivity of the diaphragm that generates the sound in the mic. The Yeti in particular has a tremendous low frequency response and must be used with some type of "pop" filter to avoid these "thumps" if the sound source is closer than a foot or so, depending on the volume of the source. A foam pop filter is often used on hand-held mics, but these can slightly degrade high-frequency response. For studio or desktop mics, a fine fabric or metal screen is used. Though these, particularly some metal ones, can modify the sound slightly, this is preferable to the harsh thumps created by plosives. Another benefit of pop filters is that they also prevent small droplets of "spit" from entering the microphone. When you're dealing with a mic that costs hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, this is very important.
2045659
Not sure if serious? Even though it says multiple times in the description, I guess I'll be the nice guy - here's a link to more info on pop filters: http://bit.ly/1xDELmB Good luck with your new podcast.
1915568
Yes this is very awesome for music, I use for music and games, it makes my music sound wayyyy better and louder than onboard audio for sure!!
1248280
the button on the cable is simply a play/pause button. it will not improve the sound.
1866105
I can see doing this to be able to increase the overall volume of your setup, but I'm still waiting on answer about chaining the signal out. Running the signal out via the headphone jack would be self defeating if it kills the internal speakers.
339876
It might, it helped in my car for my system. Try going to a car audio store or just call them and they should be able to tell if you would make a difference or even recommend something better
1405162
No this will not improve anything lets put it this way if you have a sound card in your computer you do not need this if you dont have a sound card then this will do
671048
It's intended purpose is to tame room frequency peaks and nulls. I suppose if you want to alter the intended balance of the music it could be useful. I agree with Ashok, total overkill.
1125205
It reduces the ambient noise, the Sony pair I had it increased the volume and it was evident. There is no volume difference with these when I switch back and forth.
394136
There are two buttons on these speakers - one to increase sound volume and the other to reduce. This is in addition to the source device ( e.g. iPad ). It's a good product.
949312
The things you could do to improve the sound of your system are nearly limitless, but so are things you could do that will degrade the sound, so my advice is to do lots of reading/rese arch on how audio equipment works, and how we perceive sound. If you just start randomly adding components to your system, it's just as likely to make it sound worse, as it is to make any improvement. Also, the best piece of advice I ever got from a sound engineer is this: "beware that the human brain is easily fooled into thinking that any perceived increase in loudness is an improvement in sound reproduction, but of course louder sound is not necessarily better sound". The things you could do to improve the sound of your system are nearly limitless, but so are things you could do that will degrade the sound, so my advice is to do lots of reading/rese arch on how audio equipment works, and how we perceive sound. If you just start randomly adding components to your system, it's just as likely to make it sound worse, as it is to make any improvement. Also, the best piece of advice I ever got from a sound engineer is this: "beware that the human brain is easily fooled into thinking that any perceived increase in loudness is an improvement in sound... » Read More The things you could do to improve the sound of your system are nearly limitless, but so are things you could do that will degrade the sound, so my advice is to do lots of reading/rese arch on how audio equipment works, and how we perceive sound. If you just start randomly adding components to your system, it's just as likely to make it sound worse, as it is to make any improvement. Also, the best piece of advice I ever got from a sound engineer is this: "beware that the human brain is easily fooled into thinking that any perceived increase in loudness is an improvement in sound reproduction, but of course louder sound is not necessarily better sound". « Show Less
334921
No idea. But there are better products out there. I'd say to avoid this sound bar.
560522
You can increase the volume from the device you're using - iPhone, iPod etc.
1414604
Change sound settings to turn off equalizer and adjust the bass (up) and the treble(down)...helps a little
141276
It took me a while to figure this out, but the device has a standard mode and 3 different equalization modes. Since most modern devices don't have bass and treble controls, it can indeed improve the sound quality, as it does sound different in each mode. But always remember the basic rule of digital devices. garbage in-garbage out! So if your source recording, and/or your device sucks, than your sound will as well, no matter what you try.
504088
There is no enhancement of the music quality. They just added a couple of plug in features. The older version is just as good as the newer in sound quality.
332505
You can, but I recommend you go with another product. This one cuts the audio quality like heck.
174159
you can try xlr - (1/4" or TRS) cable but adding phantom power i don't think will do anything to improve quality with XLR-TRS, now if you had XLR - XLR you get a cleaner sound with phantom power but if you don't care about noise your first choice may work in some cases but i've had the sound drop out all together using XLR-TRS.