My friend has some pretty good behringer active speakers

The teardowns of behringer stuff on youtube are fun watches

Always complete chinky horror shows inside

But they're cheap and can't go wrong with that

Lol, Got any cheap USB to XLR interfaces?

their active speakers were knwon to be bad

But I think the new ones they sold were pretty good

at least the ones my friend have sounds good, and apperantly were cheaper than other choices

Usb to XLR wot

External dac,basically. Suppose it doesn't have to be XLR.

Mine was usb powered

18v phantom power, xlr input on front

can they drive XLR over 5V USB?

chinky chink

Lol no

So why does USB to XLR exist?

Usb to XLR cables are a chink trick

Every time someone buys them it barely works

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Racksoy-Professional-Female-Microphone-Cable/dp/B00MFAHNNA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470785310&sr=8-1&keywords=USB+XLR

Or barely fives you the performance of a somaks

Somake*

Has happened dozens of times in /csg/ already

sounds horrible

if a somake would beat the cable

It's comparable

but a somake is far cheaper

And it turns your mic volume to 9000%

So it sounds loud

I only noticed the flat scratchy effect once I got into audio production

Then binned the somake

Made a joke video using somake but took it down because no one got it

I wasn't talking about the cables, no. I meant an external dac that was also a phantom power supply.

Presonus is cheapest

Then Focusrite and up

For a DAC/48V Phantom Power

The behringer one isn't a dac as far as I can tell, just a mixer

yeah, seems like an amplifier

Even that would be fine, actually. Get hardware amplification over software.

You can get one of those cheap, it's the first to have dedicated drivers which improve your PC audio

100$. Figured