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Just a disclaimer in case you read my comments and think I'm some sort of neanderthal who treats his stuff like garbage, and that's why I'm having so many issues: Not only do I consider myself one of the more careful and particular people that I know (I get upset when I scratch the finish on anything I own, for example), you can see evidence of the poor build quality of this mic in many of the other discussion posts on this drop, just scroll through and look at the amount of people posting about defective/poorly-constructed products.
Major Issues: - The mounting solution for this thing is garbage: The 3M DualLock pad finger-density was poorly chosen and the pads don't stay together very well. The adhesive on the back of the DualLock pads tends to unstick itself from the pads themselves, which, in addition to the DualLock connection being way too easy to break, makes the mic falling off of my headset an occurrence that's way too common.
- The mic arm isn't stiff at all and any sudden movements will cause the mic to drop, assuming the mounting solution doesn't give way first.
- Excessively long, low-quality cable: The cable that comes with this product is very low quality, and I'm surprised it hasn't failed yet. This wouldn't be a huge issue, except that you cannot replace it with a standard 3.5mm AUX cable, as the connections are different. It's also just unnecessarily long, maybe a design choice that was made so people didn't complain that they couldn't swap it with a longer cord (because it wouldn't work).
- You'd think that maybe the mic's redeeming quality might then be its audio fidelity right? Nope, sounds worse to others than my old, crappy, Turtle Beach X12s with a home-repaired mic, that my Sennheiser HD558s + Massdrop GarboMic replaced. I'm debating going back to slinging the Beach's around my neck and using that mic while I wait for the ModMic I just ordered to arrive, which is what I did while waiting for the Minimic initially.
Minor Issues: - Volume slider instead of mute toggle button: I'd ask why they did this, but I already know the answer, it's a lot cheaper, which describes this mic in a nutshell, "cheap". To make this even dumber, the slider is flipped around from how it should be (you slide it down to make it louder, and up to make it quieter).
- No cable-management solution: There's no included clips to combine your mic cable and headphone cable into one, which isn't a huge deal, as you can simply wrap the cable around your headphone cable to keep it in place, but it's still a complaint I have about the product.
For the price, I could look past most of the issues I stated, and still be satisfied with my purchase, but the main issue I have with this mic, and the reason I'm being so harsh on it, is the mounting solution. It's just so terrible. I remember I hadn't been using it for more than a week or two before I had to stick the DualLock pad back onto the adhesive, because it had already detached itself. Since then, I've used-up all of the included replacement DualLock pads, as, after becoming unstuck time after time, the pads would just stop sticking altogether. So unless Massdrop fixes the mounting solution for this product, I would strongly advise against buying it, and instead saving up for a ModMic.