My Apogee Mic microphone (or the Apogee Mic 96k I am not sure) is only for Macintosh and cannot be used on PC because it’s an old version but I found out that it can be used on any Android device and with a very good quality. All you need to make the Apogee Mic microphone work is an adapter from USB to micro-usb or to USB C.

Apogee Mic 96k
Apogee Mic microphone
Under the sticker of the Apogee Mic microphone is the third screw. The blu tack is to old it straight for the photo.
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Apogee Mic 96k microphone
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Some nice Electrolytic capacitors on the Apogee Mic Microphone
Apogee_microphone_repair Apogee Mic 96k
apogee microphone repair
Apogee Mic 96k Apogee Mic
the CY8C34 Microcontroller (CY8C3446LTI-073) controls this microphone Apogee Mic

here the datasheet of CY8C3446LTI-072

apogee microphone dismantle
apogee microphone dismantle
The TI PCM4201, Low Power, 24-Bit, Single Channel, Audio, Analog-to-Digital Converter

Link to the TI PCM4201 datasheet

apogee microphone dismantle
apogee microphone fixit

The circuit here is a TPS6220x High-Efficiency, SOT23 Step-Down, DC-DC Converter. Datasheet TPS6220x here

The Apogee Mic was not working. So I discovered that the Inductor L11 was broken. The Capacitor C143 was missing. As I did not have the part i made de dangerous move to bridge the L11 inductor. The Apogee Mic Microphone works again.

After some reading, it seems I might add one later on. This interesting Application Note of Ti explains why.

apogee microphone dismantle

From the Apogee webpage

Which Apogee interfaces are compatible with Windows?

  • Only newer Apogee MiC or JAM units with native WDM or WASAPI drivers (or using the ASIO4All driver)
    • MiC 96k or Jam 96k with firmware 3.x (older versions cannot be upgraded)
    • MiC Plus
    • HypeMiC
    • Jam Plus