The main advantage of the Yeti is that it ' s easy comes with a stand , plugs into USB , tweak 2 knobs and you ' re good to go . The sound is goodish not perfect , but generally sufficient for most . All of your negative points about the yeti are explained away by this pov about how it ' s just a plug an play mic without any tweeking . If you want decent sound quality , then it ' s not easy . You need to get a boom , maybe a shock mount , then learn how to use the thing . It also helps if you know basics from Audacity . You can ' t say it sucks and then say it ' s easy to use . You just point to your lack of understanding about how to use it correctly . <| sep |> My mom does this . Her excuse is that she touches everything with her sleeve . So she ' d rather have bathroom germs on her shirt all day then have to wash her hands , I guess .