[Meatex]

well thats the thing about sound and to a lesser extent graphics Zeffrin
tech specs and documents are totally meaningless except to the people trying to design the things. Its what you hear that counts
Take any well renown sound gear critic and ask him how he judges sound quality and he will tell you by listening.

So I can tell you that any amplification will introduce noise and and make it sound bad and you even agreed as such so i don't understand why you had to call me out.
again +10db is almost unnoticeable but if it isn't necessary then why do it?

Having listened to PiG's stream it is likely not a mic issue as much as audio settings issue in xsplit downsampling as his in game sounds are also distorted. (though its not too bad) like i said in my post that zeffrin attacked you can raise the audio quality should your bandwidth allow it but i think video quality is more important than sound quality
Sure buying a quality mic is a good idea but perhaps leave that for some time down the line

Here's a test
do you think streaming at 20fps would be noticeably worse than 30?
Watch destiny's stream