Going Out Live Changes the Requirements

A recording can be redone. A stream cannot. Everything on this page is chosen around that difference: the capsule has to reject a gaming PC sitting a metre away, the processing has to run in real time inside your encoder, and you need to hear a problem before the chat tells you about it.

That pushes the decisions away from raw capsule quality and towards placement, routing and monitoring. A modest microphone positioned properly and gated sensibly beats a better one sitting on the desk beside a mechanical keyboard.