LAS VEGAS -- Samson is proudly showing off its new Meteor Mic at CES. And rightly so: the thing looks stunning, with chrome-plated retro-styling and cool, fold out tripod legs.
The USB microphone is designed for podcasting, and features a 25mm diaphragm, a cardioid pickup pattern and a stereo one-eighth-inch headphone jack for monitoring. It's also driverless, showing up natively as a USB audio device. That means you can plug it onto an iPad via Apple's camera connection kit and it will just work.
I actually have a different Samson mic, and while I don't use it much, it sounds great – a hell of a lot better than the iPad's built-in mic. If the Meteor Mic sounds as good as that one, it could prove to be very popular for budget podcast setups, especially at a price of $100. Available April.
Meteor Mic [Samson. Thanks, Mark!]
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