StarTech.com USB Sound Card w/ SPDIF Digital Audio & Stereo Mic – External Sound Card for Laptop or PC – SPDIF Output (ICUSBAUDIO2D),Black 0.6" x 1.8"

Highly recommended. This USB adapter works really well as an interface for recording musical instruments with a STEREO 3.5 mm battery-powered microphone like the AT2022 or AT822 (the kind of stereo mics often used with audio-for-video and portable audio recorder applications). It is a worthy replacement for the old Griffin iMic, which only recorded at 16 bit. The stereo mics, combined with this soundcard and a laptop, make for a really light, compact and portable kit for quick, great-sounding recordings. It captures excellent sound at 24/44.1, which I find to be the sweet spot for digital recordings. The latency, input and output levels on the soundcard were very user friendly and pretty optimal. I use it to record electric guitar, which is a relatively loud sound source, so I cannot report in detail on the noise floor of the soundcard. But in preliminary testing with spoken word, the noise level seemed surprisingly good for a consumer-level device, and would likely be more than adequate for most recordings. The hardware volume control on the StarTech is a nice bonus, and very convenient. The StarTech soundcard installed effortlessly in seconds on Windows 10, which automatically installed the right driver. You may need to make some tweaks in the Windows Control Panel/Sound settings to optimize the output and input of the StarTech USA Sound Card for your computer--that is also the place you can change the bit depth and sample rate for this soundcard. I use Cubase as my recording DAW, and this soundcard gave excellent results, both recording via the mic input and monitoring via the headphone output. And Cubase had no problem recognizing and connecting with the StarTech's inputs and outputs. My pre-sales contact with StarTech was impressive. The online chat representatives gave fast responses to my technical questions. I have no idea how durable this will be in the long run. But if it delivers a reasonable service life, I would gladly get this again.

I bought this to use with my travel headphones, Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 wired headphones. The M2 headphones are very efficient, which means that I can hear even a little bit of noise. When I plugged them into my business laptop, I heard an annoying hiss. I tried a Creative E1 device and also heard an annoying hiss. With the ICUSBAUDIO2D device, I initially heard a loud hiss; but I turned the volume control dial down a bit, and very abruptly the hiss cut out. My music is still plenty loud enough. The left jack accepts the standard 4-ring plug for headphones + microphone all in one (common on mobile headphones). I was able to plug the M2 directly into that jack; headphones and microphone just worked. I use Linux, and the ICUSBAUDIO2D showed up in the Sound preferences as "USB Audio Device Analog Stereo". I had to adjust the amplification slider for the microphone all the way up or the M2's mic is too quiet, but after I did that it was just fine. Initially, bass sounded terrible. Anything with bass sounded muddy and smeared. But then I realized that the ICUSBAUDIO2D has a mini-equalizer feature: a 3-position sliding switch, with positions for Bass, Direct, and Treble. It defaults to "Bass" and it was applying some kind of bass boosting effect... and I didn't like what that effect was doing to my music. But no problem; once I figured it out, I switched it to "Direct" and I'll just leave it that way from now on. It sounds fine in "Direct" mode. Given how small and light this is, and given that my M2 headphones just plug right in and work with no adapter needed, I have found my new travel audio device. I'll just leave this in my laptop carrying bag all the time. EDIT: I have used this for about a month, and I am completely happy with it. You can get a better audio adapter but it will cost a lot more and probably need a separate power supply. Therefore I have upped my rating to 5 stars. It's the best in its class.

Sorry I don't have a picture of the product; I forgot to take a picture of it before I placed them (I have two of these). These are great to use on the computer, the only problem is unless you have the right optical cable for these (they take the ones like look like Earphone Plug), you will need to buy an adaptor to use the standard optical cable on them. You're in luck Amazon does sell these in a two pack and they are not that much of a cost. Are there better converters than these, you better believe there are, but then you are talking big bucks. These do a great job for the price.

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Cette carte son externe est un petit boitier comme on peut le voir sur l'image. Je l'utilise pour sa sortie S/PDIF uniquement, en conséquence la molette de volume et le bouton arrière concernant les basses sont désactivés. Cette carte fonctionne parfaitement et semble partie pour durer. Le son qu'elle envoie à mon système audio 5.1 Logitech Z5500 est identique à celui que j'aurais avec une carte son intégrée. Le son produit est bien en 5.1, car lorsque le fichier lu est en dts, l'écran de mon système audio affiche bien "dts audio". Idem avec un son dolby où ça affiche "dolby digital". La fréquence d’échantillonnage peut aller jusqu'à 96 khz. Vous pouvez tester avec l'utilitaire windows si vous voulez pour vérifier qu'il y a bien une indépendance des 5 canaux. Le rendu est donc excellent, et regarder un film avec cette carte son est génial. Si vous utilisez le lecteur lecteur multimédia VLC, et que vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi le son n'est pas en dts ou en dolby digital, comme c'était mon cas, c'est parce que dans VLC il faut faire le réglage suivant : outils --> préférences --> audio --> module de sortie : sélectionnez "Sortie audio DirectX" et cocher la case qui vient d'apparaître "Utiliser S/PDIF si disponible".

For years I tried to get the lot of my Bose headphones (QC15, QC25 and Soundsport) to work with my PC for gaming with voice chat, their mics are inline for smartphones. The TRRS adapters just never worked, I tried so many of them, including a crappy startech one, even tried to splice my own but to no avail. I was relunctant to have a USB adapter because it added an audio card to my computer but than I realized that the soundcard on my motherboard probably wasn't much better! So I took the plunge and so far, this little device is working beautifully! Haven't noticed any issues software wise on my computer either. Pros : - Working great (for me, that's awesome for startech products...) - Sturdy and well built - Small footprint, can be stuck to a PC with double sided tape for example - Really works with TRRS, so smartphone headphones with inline mics work! - Amplifies audio by A LOT, which can be a good thing and also a bad one... Cons : - Plugging a single channel mic in the mic port cuts off the inline microphone, I guess it's by design, it's a bit of a bummer though. - Amplifies audio by A LOT, which, like I said in the pros, can be a good thing, but can also blow out your gear and your hearing... SO BE CAREFULL

I am very happy with my purchase especially for the dolby surround 5.1. Everything works fine on Windows 11.