Piece of crap usb mic package; $28.59

[Starship Krupa]

I may be one of the few recordists in existence who feels that he already has enough mics, but there is some good value in these packages.

The shock mount, the pop screen, the arm (if you need these), and then the mic's housing and circuit boards. Microphone Parts sells a compatible upgrade capsule for $30. A circuit board with upgraded components would be another $120. They use the same Schoeps clone circuit as half the Chinese condensers on the market, in surface mount form.

I've done the most basic mods on my Chinese condensers, swapping in higher-quality caps made a readily audible difference (use of surface mount components makes the job more difficult, but not impossible). The other mod I like is to lightly pack the inside of the mic body with shipping foam to lower physical resonance within the hollow mic body.