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Welcome to this segment of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm Victor and joining me is Vlad Savav from The Verge.

Hello. Welcome.

Thank you.

I'm really glad you're here.

Thank you for joining me.

So can you tell our listeners a little bit about why you're here today?

Well, this was a really impromptu idea that I just came up with on the fly.

I'm testing a bunch of podcasting gear, which includes a bunch of microphones and some input equipment.

And I tweeted that this will be the week if anybody wants to have me on the podcast to get me on and you're one of the first people to respond and you get the pleasure of listening to me with the apogee Hype bike which is a tiny little

microphone it's actually designed to be used connected to your phone whether it's iPhone or

Android and I'm really impressed with it it has has a little pop filter. It has a tiny little package. It's super portable.

And just in a couple of quick comparisons against much larger XLR microphones and much more

more professional equipment.

I'm impressed with it and hopefully this podcast will speak to the

quality of that microphone.

So if you're hearing the audio differences, go ahead and tell us

know your thoughts about which microphone you like better or what you like about what you hear. I am using an old

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