Philips Lfh 9172 Mikrofon

This is a low-to-medium spec mono mic intended for karaoke. If you intend to connect this to a stereo socket, you are strongly advised to buy a 3.5mm mono female jack socket to 3.5mm stereo plug adapter (they cost about £1 on e-bay). This will ensure that both channels (which will be the same mono sound) come out at the same volume. I use mine as a stopgap PA mic and in particular to plug into my computer for use with voice recognition software. It's a very robust item and good value. Anyone who wants to record themselves in hifi should get a good-quality condenser mic (quite a few on Amazon for not much money and with good reviews).

Needing no external power source, connected to a Phillps voice tracer, this microphone captured even soft voices around a very large seminar table.

Greatly increased the sensitivity of the Phillips digital recorder I purchased separately and enables recording of even soft voices. Highly recommended even though the price seems a bit steep.

Great microphone - clear audio, adequate distance and noise reduction. I would recommend this microphone for meetings of 15-20 participants. May need to buy two and daisy chain them if the room is large.

There was nothing in the product info to suggest that this was only a mono microphone. Unfortunately, by the time I realised that this product was completely useless in relation to why I bought it, I had very foolishly thrown the packaging away. You have to virtually shout into it to get any level of volume and it doesn't do much to filter distortion either. It really was a complete and utter waste of money and I wouldn't recommend it unless you specifically want to make audio recordings of such low volume you can hardly hear them. Complete c##p!