I purchased the Klark Teknik CM-1 recently after checking out a number of the competitors offerings and all I can say is wow, built like a tank and offering up a further 25db of clean gain from your phantom powered pre-amp or sound card. It's a no brainer, yes there are many other devices like this available on the market, but none at this price point and build. Anyone using dynamic mics will find this device a god send (lots of clean gain from your dynamic or ribbon mics) simple straight forward does what it says on the box stuff. It just does what its meant to do. It's application for for live use shouldn't be overlooked