Name: USB Audio Adapter External Sound Card
Brand: StarTech.com
SKU: 10163990
Price: 73.7 CAD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7 (66 reviews)

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USB Audio Adapter External Sound Card

<body><ul><li>Full 7.1 audio output support in a compact and portable external sound card</li><li>Connect to external speakers through 3.5mm mini-jacks or optical S/PDIF</li><li>Backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support</li></ul></body><br><ul><li>Full 7.1 audio outputs via 3.5mm mini-jacksOptical S/PDIF input (pass through) and outputDual microphone inputBuilt-in volume control buttonsFull-duplex recording and playbackSupports 48/44.1 KHz sample rate for recording and playbackHigh Speed USB 2.0 compliant host interface, with transfer rates up to 480 Mbps</li><li>This versatile External USB Sound Card/Audio Adapter offers a high quality solution for upgrading desktop or laptop sound</li><li>Providing a robust USB audio experience, the USB sound card connects to a host computer through a single USB 2.0 connection, to deliver impressive external audio capability that can instantly be swapped between systems, without having to open the computer case for installation</li><li>Supporting analog and digital audio for 2 to 7.1 channel audio applications, the external USB sound card provides a cost-saving upgrade from built-in/on-board sound that turns desktop/laptop sound into a home theater-ready audio solution</li><li>The external USB sound card features easy-to-use volume control and two external microphone inputs - a convenient solution for any audio application requiring high quality sound with multi-input capability with support for 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz sampling rates for both playback and recording</li><li>A more than suitable solution for home theater, gaming or multi-media presentations, the External USB Sound Card is easy to install with plug and play support in Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system</li></ul>

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<p>This versatile External USB Sound Card/Audio Adapter offers a high quality solution for upgrading desktop or laptop sound. Providing a robust USB audio experience, the USB sound card connects to a host computer through a single USB 2.0 connection, to deliver impressive external audio capability that can instantly be swapped between systems, without having to open the computer case for installation. Supporting analog and digital audio for 2 to 7.1 channel audio applications, the external USB sound card provides a cost-saving upgrade from built-in/on-board sound that turns desktop/laptop sound into a home theater-ready audio solution. The external USB sound card features easy-to-use volume control and two external microphone inputs - a convenient solution for any audio application requiring high quality sound with multi-input capability with support for 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz sampling rates for both playback and recording. A more than suitable solution for home theater, gaming or multi-media presentations, the External USB Sound Card is easy to install with plug and play support in Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems.Designed to deliver a long-lasting and dependable sound solution, the External USB Sound Card/Audio Adapter is backed by our 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support.</p>

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My computer would NOT play through the built in adapter. The sound was only mono. My new adapter fixed all of this. My sound is now awesome. The sub-woofer blasts and the rear speakers add a new dimension to my listening experience. Thanks.

Adapter is great for adding surround sound to a PC

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I was very impressed with the capacity of this small unit. I am using only five of its seven channels and was very pleased with the ease of setting it up and the resulting sound.  For Windows users in Devices and Printers right click on USB Sound Device and select Sound Settings and then Configure. Choose the number of speakers you are using.

A lot of functionality in a small package

A friend recommended this product to me and I'm recommending it to you. It works great with excellent sound. No problems found in this unit. Thanks for a good product "again " .

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I have had one of these for over a year now. Best thing about this card is the ability to have more than one input working at the same time. Windows DRM since Vista has disabled the ability to have Line in and Microphone working at the same time. Since I have two computers, one connected to line in on this and a microphone for talking to friends it does exactly what I need. I have purchased several audio cards and spent hundreds on some that couldn't perform as well as this one.

Better than any internal audio card

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I bought this item because I needed to record some audio from my turntables but my laptop doesn't recognized external input via mic jack. This sound card did exactly what I needed with great sound quality. Also, when headphones are connected to the sound card the sound is much louder than when they are plugged directly into my laptop. Worked great on Windows 7, not so much on Windows 8.

Record Audio With Startech

I have a old PC and the internal sound went out & I use this as a replacement... It works wonderful... I would really recommend it to anyone... Only thing is it took a lifetime for me to receive this after I ordered it...smh, but in spite of that... I'm so grateful my computer sound works again... :-)

Thank you God for this LOL

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It is not the most sturdy thing and the ability to find out more information regarding setup is desired

I got this to reuse a 7.1 surround sound system that was collecting dust in my loft.  I plugged it in on my Win 10 machine (Version 1909) and it seemed to auto install. Problem is it would only output as "headphones" no options to output in any other way. I then installed the startech drivers from the website, still nothing. After half an hour of troubleshooting I contacted support, long story short you need to install the drivers from the Startech website which will install the app "Cmedia Xear Audio Centre", open the app, right click on the "Headphone" icon, select the second option "headphone settings" then in the top right select the drop down box that says "Headphone" then you can select "speaker" or "SPDIF Out" . once you select "speaker"  the "headphone" icon will grey out and "Speakers" will be selected. You can then output in 5.1, 7.1 etc! No mention of this un-intuitive "feature" in the manual but support were great!

When you get it working it's great!

I purchased this unit because I use a Small Form Factor PC with limited upgrade options. On the photos I could see it has a lot of connections. I wasn't interested in the 7.1 features, but more for recording purposes, especially the optical input.

The C-Media Audio chip in this device is quite basic, limited to 16 Bit and 48 KHz. So it won't do 24 Bit or 96 KHz or any of that.

The specifications and manual mention that the S/PDIF optical input is only pass-through, yet it shows up as an input in Windows 10 and you can record just fine with software such as Audacity.

The specifications mention dual microphone inputs. Yes there are 2 ports, and you would assume that you can connect two microphones, but this is not the case. Windows audio properties show only a single microphone input. The way this USB audio device is setup is that the left mic port is for the left channel, and the right port for the right channel. Rather than have a single mic port that does Stereo. Very strange and means if you have standard Stereo Mic you need to get a Y-cable.

Finally the device has optical-in, line-in and mic-in. On a standard sound card you can use all the inputs simultaneously. For example receiving music from the line-in, while doing a voice over through the microphone. But this device only supports on of these at a time! So it's either optical in, either line-in or either mic in. But you cannot use two or three inputs at the same time. I'm amazed at this limitation and that this is not mentioned.

The driver seems to be quite old and mixer has just two sliders for volume and CD, which makes no sense. There are no sliders for the other ports. The software and driver doesn't seem to add much compared to the built-in functions that Windows 10 provides.

On the positive side the build quality seems solid. The buttons on the unit as handy, but most keyboard have the same volume and mute button. The mic mute button though can be very useful.

The power LED blinks all the time which is a bit strange.

All in all the product didn't meet my expectations, especially that you can only use one input source at a time and that this wasn't mentioned anywhere.

Average product with hidden limitations

I spent 8 hours trying to get the SPDIF output to work.  Why? Because I'm a tech guy and we're not easily defeated.  I tried it on 4 different Windows 10 computers, an iMac, a Linux desktop running Ubuntu and even a Chromebook.  The Chromebook and Linux workstation were the only devices able to output over SPDIF.  I've read everything there is to read about it, I know the SPDIF can't output lossless audio or 5.1.  I'm going to call StarTech but I need to meditate first.

Don't buy unless you have a Linux distro