a014:b014 Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50

Insignia (Best Buy)

Vendor ID
a014
Product ID
b014
Combined
a014:b014
Decimal
40980:45076

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50 manufactured by Insignia (Best Buy). The vendor ID a014 is registered to Insignia (Best Buy) with the USB Implementers Forum, and b014 is the product ID that Insignia (Best Buy) assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as a014:b014 Insignia (Best Buy) Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID a014:b014 Insignia (Best Buy) Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50

You can filter directly with lsusb -d a014:b014, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d a014:b014. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=a014, idProduct=b014.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_A014&PID_B014
USB\VID_A014&PID_B014&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_A014&PID_B014"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50:
      Product ID: 0xb014
      Vendor ID: 0xa014  (Insignia (Best Buy))

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

a014  Insignia (Best Buy)
	b014  Desktop Microphone NS-PAUM50

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