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Audio gear is like this too. I certainly don't have an either natural or trained radio voice. I did use decent (tens of dollars) mics when I was doing podcasts and it was probably better than using an AirPod or certainly just the laptop speaker. But anything above that wouldn't really have made any difference no matter how much money I spent--especially outside of a real studio environment.

Also, to be honest, a lot of pros probably use gear that's expected and very few people would notice any difference if they didn't have the latest cool new camera they bought.