Philips PH62080 Microphone

20% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

The reviewer here who mentions you need a preamp if you are running directly into most PCs is correct. Thats why the other reviewers can't get enough recording volume. I bought one of these, took the cartridge out, rewired it, and use it for blues...

These are dynamic microphones and will not directly replace the condenser microphones used by PC sound card mic inputs. However, if you use a small mixer and route it to the sound cards stereo input, your in business and capable of vastly superior...

I bought this microphone to use for Skype phone calls, thinking it would provide better sound than my PC mic. Man, I couldn't have been more wrong. The mic records at very low levels which makes it virtually useless. I have tried it with voice...

Purchased this mic at Walmart for a good price but had to return it because it wasn't sensitive enough. Used with a mixing input on boombox. Had to turn gain almost all the way up to get any usable signal.

I bought this mic at Walmart for minor voice work. I have to turn the gain to full and shout into the mic to get my PC to have a normal sounding recording. Pass this up and get something else if you're looking to plug into a PC.