>>53572633Right now? The GoXLR with its crappy end of life firmware is one of the prime suspects for causing Kiara's random tech issues after recently upgrading her computer.
But more than that, the GoXLR has long become a flashpoint symbol of her contentious audio quality / voice complaints in general. Sure, part of it is just a meme that has taken on a life of its own, and part of it may also be cope i.e. that it's ooonly GoXLR holding her back and if it was gone everyone would suddenly realize how toootally different and cuter she really sounds etc.
The actual truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The GoXLR itself doesn't help, but how bad it is also depends a lot on your own settings and you can improve a lot by tweaking it - which our tech-illiterate chimken doesn't do and just goes with the stock or whatever presets Ame uses and thinks "ehh whatever, sounds good enough, don't bother...".
In reality these issues usually rarely have one single point of failure that, if you just switch it out, everything suddenly changes, instead it's usually a chain of little fuckups that add up. She could do a lot with proper eq-ing and compression to put the harsh edge off her voice and make it more smooth and even to listen to, but she doesn't know how and probably doesn't even care, plus with her "gamer girl headphones" more selected for looks than sound quality it's arguable she can't even hear whats wrong. She also sits too close to the microphone and doesn't use a pop filter, this is basic 101 stuff that would improve her sound quality much more than any fancy expensive new tech gadget, but again, no dice. And in the end, while we had timeloops around "chicken voice" vs "real voice" for years now, it's simply the case that no matter what you call the voice Kiara chooses to present herself on stream, it's always gonna be an niche "aquired taste" voice, not for everyone. Most of the voices EN viewers really like and actively compliment usually fall into one of two categories, either softspoken uwu shygirl or deepsex dommymommy, more or less, the rest are just whatever. Kiara's, let's call it positively, excited genki type voice is more of an outlier and if you're not into that, it's easy to come off as more annoying and grating than the fomer two. And while there's technical ways Kiara could use to present that voice in a better way, see above, there's no one simple magic fix or piece of tech that would suddenly transform her general voice type into one with overwhelming mainstream appeal that'd make everyone suddenly like it.
