It was just a waste of money and possibly even false advertising

Works as advertised.

False advertising don't buy

Works just as advertised

Good quality works as advertised.

Works as advertised

Worked as advertised.

Works as advertised.

The product works fine, However as advertised I was supposed to receive the 3 pin xlr connector as a bonus for purchasing this

Works as advertised.

Works as advertised.

Works as advertised

Works quite well, as advertised!

Works as advertised.

This thing works as advertised

This unit works well as advertised and allows me to use condenser mics in a set up that does not include phantom power separately.

Works as it should thank you.

Works as it should with the

The replacement unit has so far worked without failure for the past three weeks, and I've yet to experience any malfunction or issues as of the writing of this addendum.

This was the short version, here the long one:the reason for many of the problems is a basic misunderstanding of the conception of a balanced circuit: the output of this device is BALANCED, thus the plus/minus poles are 180° phase inverted relative to another, if you connect this 3,5mm plug to a NORMAL unbalanced laptop/soundcard input it will either not work at all (as in my case) or it will be catastrophically full of noise since of course a normal input does not 'substract' the two pole signals, that is performs anther 180° rotation on one of them

It was working perfectly fine until a few moments later it wouldn't turn on anymore D: