Comments on: CAD Audio U9 Review

By: Amazon Customer

Amazon Customer — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 03:56:35 +0000

Handy little device that doesn’t take up much space and seems to pick up sound very well.

By: HILTON

HILTON — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:12:22 +0000

Works well vocal recording in a closed space. Anything else sounds mediocre.

By: Sue B.

Sue B. — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:04:27 +0000

Un peu encombrant pour l’usage que je souhaitais en faire. Cependant, le son transmis est clair, même à distance (raisonnablement). Attention cependant, un éclairage sur la base du micro est présent et ne se voit pas sur les photos.

By: Amastro

Amastro — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:21:00 +0000

I used this microphone to record my lectures for one of the most boring classes I’ve ever taken. I used it to record stuff using the Notability app on Mac and I could hear my professor just fine. It was like I was sitting on the front row. The only problem was that when I used it on the OneNote app, the recordings had a high pitch sound on them which was annoying at times. I guess it depends on the app you are using.

By: Jeffery

Jeffery — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:06:55 +0000

This Microphone picks up sound in a room much better than the internal microphone in my Macbook Pro. What really disappoints me is that it is horribly sensitive to wind. Just sitting near a window with a light breeze, totally ruins a recording. When there is a breeze, I cannot hear anything of what I’m recording. So if you will use this in an area with little to no draft, it should work very well. The mic itself also has the ability to rotate around the usb so that its target receiving area can be either toward the computer user or away.

By: Rex S

Rex S — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:50:34 +0000

Loud , too much sensitive , great for chating and all
I dont use it , tried to record some songs , didn’t work.

By: Cliente Amazon

Cliente Amazon — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:20:32 +0000

Perfect very good quality

By: j2c

j2c — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:29:43 +0000

For my win10 PC connected to my flatscreen in my living room (lets call it a HTPC+), I love using Cortana with this microphone. My constraints were that it had to perform like the amazon echo (eg. omni-directional, work from a large distance, etc), but it needed to be much cheaper than the echo dot itself. At the time of writing, echo dot was ~$50 and this mic was ~$25

In my opinion, the mic works great. For example: I spoke "hey cortana ...show me images of el conquistador in puerto rico" (which, by the way, is an awesome place) as well as other visually interactive phrases ("...start subnautica", "...how do I fix a toilet", etc) and it picked up every word of my very american voice from 15ft away from center. The mic is advertised as omni-directional, but it has a swivel head which makes it seem directional. Regardless, I stood 15ft away then 7 feet off from center (ie. 25 degree angle from the mic according to some trigonometry) and cortana was also able to interpret what I was saying without issue. The device also "looks" wide, but fit comfortably into my usb hub without interfering with my other plugs.

Some caveats: 1) this device has a 3.5 jack for headphones; if you use it only as a microphone, be sure to disable this device as a speaker in device manager. 2) be sure to use a powered USB hub. I received the error "USB controller resource exceeded" after I plugged in the mic, even with my powered USB hub. I have an xbox wireless receiver, a keyboard dongle, and a bluetooth dongle plugged in there already. After a bit of research, I realized I was plugged into a USB-3 port on the PC; indicated by a blue-colored USB port. I moved the USB hub over to a USB-2 port on the PC, indicated by a non-blue-colored USB port, and everything seemed to work ok eg. keyboard, xbox controller, mic. Admittedly, I never really stress all peripherals at once.

Next step for me is to try some cortana scripts. Happy New Year!

By: Borris

Borris — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 01:57:25 +0000

This was an interesting product shown to me by one of our Application Coordinator’s. I was hating wearing a headset mic set because sometimes I need people to hear what’s going on on the other side of the call. The mic picks up fairly well but I don’t like that I have to plug in speakers to hear the sound. That’s an issue. I have a monitor speaker plugged into my docking stations and had to get another monitor speaker to plug into this so I could the other end of the conversation. That means I have a lot of wires running around the docking station. If it wasn’t for the that issue, this would have been 4 stars.

By: j2c

j2c — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 02:11:54 +0000

I bought this mic for a project that really doesn't require high-end equipment. I basically just wanted something I could stick on my Raspberry Pi for sound detection for use in scripts. If sound above a certain threshold is detected, then do something... that kind of thing...
I really didn't care what it sounded like, so long as the pick-up pattern was, in fact, omni-directional.
Well, turns out it's actually a quite directional cardioid. Nothing omni-directional about it. Quite peaky as well.

It might sound slightly better than the microphone in your budget laptop or tablet, though not by much. I honestly think the mics in my 2014 MacBook Air are better, though awkwardly placed on the left-hand side, facing away from generally anything you'd want to record. Plus, like almost any laptop microphones, they pick up typing quite nicely. If you need a quick solution, the U9 will be a step above that to some extent.

I, personally, would have included a windscreen in the package. It needs one badly.