The quality is not very good and my son is disappointed that it is just not very loud. For the price I expected a lot more and that was the most annoying part of the birthday party. Without the volume, this would be a solid buy, but I'd suggest avoiding it and looking for something better. Update: We hooked it up to a laptop but the mic still didn't work. I tried everything, every setting, but this laptop never recognized the microphone. We had to get one with a USB cable, and for some reason this connector wasn't supposed to work on every computer. We have a cable that converts it to USB, but Windows has very limited ability to control the microphone. For example, I can't adjust the gain. This is certainly not the birthday present we were hoping for.