I think something is defective here!

I've been using the Shure X2U adapter (with a shure sm86 condenser mic) for almost a year and it's worked flawlessly. The only noise I ever hear is sometimes the mic will pick up the sound of the computer fan, but then that's just a proximity issue.

I do have a bit of a latency problem when recording with it in RB, (mostly on up-tempo songs) but no problems with that when I use it to record in Reaper.

Greg