My biggest concern when buying it is that there would be monstrous crackling and distortion on high and/or loud notes whenever I sang at any reasonable distance from it

If you have a crackling squeaky voice it will not make you sound like Barry White :-)However this microphone does have an exceptional quality for USB microphones and edging in on broadcast quality

We used headset microphones and found a lot of static, tinny or echoe effects, or just weird crackles or pops as the user moved the headset microphone boom

AWESOME product, use it every day as well as for my webinar hosting and podcasts.

When I initially bought the microphone, I liked it, but after using it for about 15 weeks, I notice an intermittant audio cut that follows the microphone, and is present on my Mac in both Garage Band and Audacity, as well as on my Windows 8 PC in Audacity

I first bought this to do some digital recording, but found that it also works great for Skype and other video meetings, as well as for dictation using Dragon Naturally Speaking

I use it to record my podcasts as well as with Skype

The sound quality is good, but now I have to upgrade my PC for this to work as it cuts in and out since it needs more memory to run

I would work on that as a