CAD AudioAstatic 40-117 Desk Stand-Gooseneck Mic, Push to Talk or Push to Mute with LED Light, black

This microphone base works well for our council meetings. We currently have eight, and I keep an extra on hand because they have a tendency to fail without much notice.

Keeps failing to work all the time.

Astatic has a series of podium microphone mute switches in the 40-11x range. Based on the descriptions that I was seeing on most people's website, I thought I was buying a base that I could toggle back and forth between muted and not. It appeared that it had a "programmable" LED light that would show me when I was on mute or not.Unfortunately, I bought the wrong one, which only had a momentary-contact switch in it, meaning that it would only mute OR talk (that's the "programmable" part) WHEN the button was actually being held down. My 40-116 didn't have an LED light in it at all.I knew that the vendor that I purchased mine from stated up front that this was a drop-ship item that could not be returned (and after getting a hold of them around their squirly weekend hours, they confirmed that). I tried for days to contact Astatic directly, and FINALLY go a hold of a warm body today, only to be told that they won't support it, and I'd have to buy a new one.So I am, I'm buying an Audio-Technica...If you buy the Astatic, make sure you know EXACTLY what you're buying.