A:Answer Your best answer would come from a manufacturer rep or knowledgeable store clerk. Looks to me like in order of price and complexity of features, from the lower to higher would be the Blue Yeti Nano; the Blue Yeti or the Blue Yeti X. Those prices range from just under $100 USD to around $169.00 If you want an LED light display as you are recording, various sound effects and all these bells and whistles you could go with the Yeti X. If you want something sturdy but inexpensive that will just do good recordings and still has multiiple settings, read the descriptions of the other two models closely. My model has 5 features besides the USB cable: mute, volume, gain, headphone jack port and a dial with 4 "pattern" settings, depending on what parts of the surroundijng space you want to capture most clearly.