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TLDR: Good mic.  Has a place in a microphone collection.  But not the end-all-be-all.  Not necessarily better than every mic under its price for every person and every use case.
 
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SM7B is the microphone that many beginners without much audio knowledge buy when they want to upgrade their sound quality.  They see many podcasters and streamers use it.   But it's not necessarily the best choice for beginners and it's not for everyone.  If you're just looking to voice chat in games or stream on twitch, I'd argue it's overkill.
 
Shure's marketing is exceptional and it creates a positive feedback loop.  It established an advantage in the 60's to 80's and snowballed from there.  And it's easier to convince a company to have a business expense for a product that's from a well established company for 50+ years like Shure, than to justify an expense from a lesser known company.   If someone goes on a forum to ask for a mic recommendation under $500, you will see a lot of comments in favor the SM7B.  But did all those commenters try a wide variety of mics at that price point?  Probably not.  They know of the SM7B.  More people will have a favorable view of the SM7B than other mics because they've tried it or heard of it.  There are probably many mics as good as the SM7B that we haven't heard of or tested?
 
Background Noise.  There's a myth that dynamic mics reduce background noise.  This is because they're less sensitive to gain and people under-supply them with gain, and the overall output volume is lower.  At lower volumes, background noise is quieter but that's because all noise is quieter.  The background noise information is still in the signal.  A microphone has no way of distinguishing the distance of where sound travels from, or arbitrary things like what noise the user views as essential vs. meaningless background noise.  At equal volume, the SM7B will pick up as much background noise as other cardioid mics.  But being even less sensitive to gain than many other mics out there.
 
(^ Same logic applies to opinions about it being great for loud vocals because you can scream into it as loud as you want.  You can scream into literally any mic, even the most sensitive condesner mic, if the gain is set appropriately)
 
Sound quality.  The frequency response is largely flat with a light boost at 5-6k and cuts at 7-9k (which reduce sibilance, but also presence; some people may want that treble in their voice).  I'd describe the tone of the mic as neutral, slightly warm, calming and soothing.  But there is subjectivity in tone.  This tone may be flattering for some voices, but it may not be for everyone.  And it would be fallacy to assume that just because it's a $400+ mic, that its tone is automatically better for your voice than any mic under it.
 
Design.  One reason why it sounds good on many people is because it's design encourages proper use.  The capsule is buried inside of the mic, so you don't get too close and have an excessive proximity effect sub-bass.  The windscreen is very generous in blocking plosives.  The mic has a swivel to adjust it to face your mouth.  But you can do all of these things with literally other any microphone; the SM7B is just more idiot-proof.
 
The truth.  Your mic choice isn't the only factor in your sound quality.  Your recording environment, mic placement, acoustic treatment and knowing how to use fx plugins are factors too.  Getting a higher-end mic doesn't fix these other factors.  In many cases, the solution is knowledge; not just throwing money at the problem.
 
Is this worth buying?  If you're a professional studio or have a lot of disposible income, yes.  It's a no-brainer for a studio; they already have an ideal recording environment, and of course, they're going to buy the mic that many of their clients want to use.  But if you only have several hundred to spend on an audio setup and you don't have an ideal recording environment, spend money on improving the environment.
 
 
 
 

Power cable? Video cable? Network cable? Got to be more specific.

I could be incorrect, but the cooler doesn't state it's compatible with LGA 1700 Sockets. I recommend looking into that, and consider a more beefy cooler for that i9.

The large logo for Techquickie seems to be Telsa:
 

 
I dont know if it is just google not yet updating the logo for search, or it is a seperate image that has to be updated back, so just giving a feedback.

It's a good question. Some staff definitely do have accounts and very occasionally you may see them replying in the comment section. I'm not sure if all staff are automatically assigned Floatplane subscriptions to the LTT channel, I wouldn't imagine they would be since depending on their role they might not need it to do their job, but if any employees were interested in it and asked for a subscription I can't see any reason why they wouldn't be given access.
However, it's very unlikely LMG employees would get free access to other creator channels but there's nothing stopping them from subscribing themselves if they're interested in other creators.

Here phone plan is normal for any job that includes talking to people outside of the office. Like customers, partners, suppliers. It's worth something like 50e/mo,so not really big deal.
 
They could have it as voucher to subscribe to one or two other creators. In lines of what I get as 200e/year for sports/culture/physio.

No. Generally when you work in content creation and dealing with all of it, you dont watch it all that much. Also floatplane doesnt really have much on  it besides LTT content, with the other few Creators on it pretty much all similarly around tech.

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