Editorial Review:Product Description:Great high quality product! Eliminate the need for a traditional sound card with this USB to Audio adapter. Real USB plug & play to upgrade any on-board soundcard to 5.1 Digital Surround Sound without any hardware installation. Connect a speaker or headphone directly to the adapter and enjoy 3D positional sound and virtual 5.1ch sound track. Use the USB port power directly.
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Average Rating:
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Does NOT work for recent Mac Book Pros
Like the others who rate this product as one star, I found it to be totally unusable for the intended purpose. The seller does NOT list it as being compatible with Mac, for good reason, but based on other reviews I took a chance. It was a waste of money. My recent [Oct 2008] MBP did recognize the mic portion but there is a chronic 'clicking' noise about once per second as it cuts in and out that renders the mic feature useless. There is no documentation online or with the product, so it either works perfectly or you are hosed. The headphone portion will not work at all with my MBP regardless of the settings. I cannot tell whether I received a defective product that only half works or if it is truly incompatible with MBP but I would definitely tell other potential buyers to pay the exorbitant price for the Mac-specific adapters that actually work.
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Tested this out on two different headsets...
I am very pleased with the converter. I got this because the port hole in my laptop broke. I have tried this converter on 2 headsets.
On the Logitech Premium Stereo, the Microphone quality was the exact same. Sound however was worse, added fuzz, it was OK but poor.
On the Razer Piranna (high quality gaming), BOTH functions worked PERFECTLY! I'm very happy!
...which leads me to think, that the better the headset, the better results you will have.
In reading some of the reviews, it seems like people are expecting the converter to improve their headset, when you really only can expect it to be the same.
Great product, Very cheap! If you have the Razer Piranna don't hesitate and get this product now.
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Good Output - Terrible Input
For speakers or headset this produces an acceptable sound. However, the speaker input produces low volume fuzzy and crackly noise. I tried in two PC's running XP and Vista with the same results. Plug the same mike into the rear input jacks and the mike works fine. If you need to use just the speaker output on this it works fine. I bought it to use for Skype, but it is useless for that.
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Horrible
As others have mentioned, there really isn't a volume setting for this device--it's either on REALLY LOUD or off. This product produces a hideous, loud buzz when hooked up to a Y cable or my Xenyx 502 mixer. I wasn't expecting much in audio fidelity from this device, but this is simply unusable. DO NOT BUY.
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Works great for my headphones
I broke the headphone jack on my laptop, and to get it fixed would cost me hundreds because it's part of the motherboard. So i got this and it works fine for my headphones or external speakers. It uses its own sound card which is pretty decent. My internal sound card is pretty basic itself anyway. I don't use the microphone function so i cant comment on that.
