Thats prolly a good solution for those who just want a mic that works loud enough in skype, but you can't mix it through your soundcard so you play music at same time.
I've seen people try it, and even when they set it as default in windows etc it doesn't do what I need it to do.
When you set your sound card to MIX on the recording side, it's still needs a mic input from the soundcard for work, and USB just doesn't do this
Thinking about this (and a comment I had last night) the amount of work I had to put in to get the Audigy SE to work, it prolly ain't worth the money.
It does what I want it to do, but few people are going to want to mess with their registry to get it to work.
I had this card laying around for another project, and I'd mislayed my X-Fi hence I ended up using it.
The X-FI does have a mic boost that works in Vista and MIX works...sound wise I can't hear any difference over the Audigy SE.
I asked one of the guys who did a revue of the Asus Xonar D2X could he please test it with a mic to see if it is low as was said here.
He said he'd give it a go in Skype today which I appreciate, but you would have thought they could devise a standard test that all the reviewers could use.
