Very low volume output microphone

The microphone came nicely with an adapter and a long wire. I like the fact that the microphone has an on-off switch. I was excited to try it on my 60 watts portable karaoke machine and compare it with the cheap made original microphone that came with the machine but to my surprise, this mic volume output was really low and I needed it to get closer to my mouth in order to hear my voice. The old original cheap microphone has a better clearer sounding output. I ended up returning this to Amazon.