FIFINE AmpliGame A8 Microphone Review
How is this only selling for $50?
Not that long ago, a microphone like the Fifine A8 would likely cost north of $100. Yet here we are in 2025 reviewing a USB microphone that not only looks nice, but has performance to back it up that way exceeds its price tag. This is a $50 microphone that I can attest gives similar results to the HyperX Quadcast, which back in the day, I thought was one of the best consumer plug-and-play microphones available on the market. The market for inexpensive starter microphones has since become saturated for the better so let’s take a deeper look at the Fifine AmpliGame A8.
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Disclaimer: Fifine sent us a unit free of charge to review, but all thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are our own and were not discussed with the company prior to publishing.
Simple and Clean
Pure white design is super clean looking
On the surface, the A8 is an inexpensive, and quite honestly a generic microphone for gamers. I have the white variant and it’s matched by a white colored stand. The gaming aesthetic comes into play with the RGB lighting emitting from within the capsule. Once again, it's pretty generic and basic with a total of 3 modes that cycle from static, dynamic, to gradient options. I’m normally not a big fan of RGB’s blasting out of a microphone, but the A8’s light looks extremely clean with the white frame pillars encasing the capsule. The all-white look works really well with the simple RGB options on here and I think it’s a great asset to an otherwise inexpensive item.
There’s a small button on the back directly under the capsule that toggles through the different RGB colors. It’s accompanied by a gain knob that’s hidden under the suspension mounting ring. It’s abnormally small for a gain knob, but then again the microphone itself doesn’t have a lot of real estate to play with. The footprint of the A8 is rather small and it’s easily able to be tucked away on a desk. Continuing through the hardware, the bottom of the microphone houses the headphone jack and the USB-C port that plugs into a computing device that will connect with the A8. It’s plug-and-play and doesn’t require software to recognize so the A8 is quite simple to get up and running. On the flip side, there’s a touch-sensitive mute button that is highlighted by either a green or red LED notification symbol to identify its situation.
Small Size
The A8 measures in at
8.66 x 5.91 x 3.94 inches
Audio Quality
As for the audio, like other microphones in this category, the A8 has a cardioid pickup pattern that allows the user’s voice to be the focal point of what gets picked up. The A8 does a decent job at isolating the voice while eliminating audio from behind it like my fan-blowing PC in the background. My voice is clear and my words are distinct. It surprisingly captures a realistic pitch and tone of my voice. The audio sensitivity is at -40 decibels while the signal-to-noise ratio is at 80 decibels. While I won’t claim that the audio wouldn’t benefit from a little EQ work in post, I did find the raw audio to be much better than I had expected from the price tag.
My biggest enjoyment from reviewing the A8 was discovering that the mic comes with a detachable pop filter. While the entirety of the rest of the product is made from plastic, the filter has a quality behind it as it’s cut from a sheet of metal. I legitimately would purchase this pop filter for my other microphones if it was individually sold by FIFINE. That’s how much I liked it. The filter’s mounting station is a perfectly measured distance to keep the plosives out of the audio.
This pop filter has done better than some of my more expensive options that I’ve integrated with other microphones. It covers just enough to fill out the real estate of the front of the microphone capsule, but it would have been even better if it was slightly wider. Still, this is a filter I would be happy to receive if I paid about $10-15 for on Amazon. When you factor in that the A8 cost less than $50 and it includes the pop filter with it, it just continues to astound me how Fifine gets under this dollar threshold.
final thoughts
That’s really all there is to know about the Fifine A8. There’s no extra bells and whistles to this simple plug-and-play microphone, but that’s also a major selling point as the no-nonsense approach is what gave the company the leeway to price this microphone competitively like this. I’m not so sure how durable the microphone will be in the long run as it is made out of a really cheap feeling plastic, but the microphone capsule itself is enclosed with a thin metal casing. Still, this is likely a classic “you get what you paid for” scenario. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as you can easily replace this with another one without feeling it in the wallet to much.
What will probably blow away most buyers is the clean vocal audio that is pushed out from the A8. It’s levels beyond what a $50 traditionally would supply buyers. In fact, it’s cheaper to buy than many boom arms that it mounts onto. So while this is a great beginner microphone for the price tag, I’d also say that it's a solid USB microphone overall regardless of the affordability aspect.
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