Nah, in the same way you can plug any old set of speakers into your pc's speaker port, you can plug any old mic into the mic in and it'll work. USB Might be worth a try though? Not sure who makes the singstar headset, but I plugged my logitech usb headset into a winxp machine and it recognised it straight away, and the sound quality is amazing - use it for voice chat all the time.

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Question: I’m hearing a delay with my USB Audio Device, is this normal? Answer: When using a digital audio device, such as a USB microphone, you might experience a delay from the time you speak into the microphone to the time you hear the audio come out of the computer speakers or headphones. When you speak into a USB microphone, the analog signal picked up by the microphone element needs to be converted into a digital signal that your computer can read. Once your computer reads that signal, it needs to be converted back to analog in order to be heard through speakers or headphones. The delay experienced is called “latency.” Latency is basically the amount of time it takes a digital (audio) signal to be processed.

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Latency can occur with any digital audio device and is related to analog-digital/digital-analog (AD/DA) conversion. Since the conversion takes time, the user experiences latency. Of course, latency isn’t unique to digital audio devices – it occurs naturally all the time. Think about that time you were at a baseball game; you saw the batter swing and hit the ball, but you didn’t hear the sound until a little bit later. That’s latency! Mathematically, it works out to approximately 1 ms for every 1.1 feet the sound has to travel.

Therefore, at 11 feet you experience approximately 10 ms of latency, which is likely the least amount of latency that humans can detect. With digital audio, latency is typically associated with USB Microphones, USB Turntables and digital recording interfaces. (Latency with Audio-Technica digital wireless systems is so low – under 4 ms – that it’s not an issue of concern.) It can be difficult to predict how much latency you might experience with such devices, because there are usually multiple components that process the digital audio signal.