Startech.Com 7.1 Usb Sound Card - External For Laptop With Spdif Digital Audio Pc Silver (Icusbaudio7D)

I loved this audio card it worked perfectly. I connected my old pin5.1 speakers to my Alienware pc.

Download software from the website. VLC Media player need some configuration to allow surround sound. Very nice product

Excellent

Stopped working within a week

Cette carte audio externe est pile ce que je recherchais. Le pris est correct (des cartes similaires chez Creative coûtent plus de 100 euros en moyenne). Le bouton sur le boîtier est un plus, même si je ne m'en sers pas, ça fait quand même trois possibilités de moduler le son (réglages Windows, le bouton sur les enceintes et ces boutons sur le boîtier). Le son est très bon puisque j'ai un système 5.1. Cela m'a permis de récupérer du son sur un PC où la carte son interne et intégré à la carte mère a lâché. Le produit est arrivé dans les délais annoncés et bien emballé. Ce fut une joie que de retrouver du son sur mon PC.

Absolutely a very fine device The driver down load places it all there in the windows control panel under sounds My very old 5.1 logic tech amp and speakers sound just great and the star tech amp pushes the sub woofer with gusto

Compatta, solida e soprattutto perfettamente funzionante. Io la uso per giochi e musiche in 5.1 ed è tutto ok, suono e localizzazione perfetti. Per istallarla ho scaricato dal sito (come consigliato nel manuale cartaceo incluso nella confezione) il software "Xear Audio Center" che permette di gestire facilmente input e output. Consigliatissima.

Having purchased an internal sound card recently from somewhere else, I was a little concerned that this would work properly. I wanted to connect my Desktop PC to a 7.1 HT System using the TOSLINK and the sound card only supported 2 channels via this connector. However, this USB Sound Card works a dream. I initially plugged it into a Windows 7 based Laptop and it installed everything first time. A reboot was required and I was quickly able to play some music & films using the full 7.1 surround sound. The next task was to check out this sound card with my desktop PC which has Windows XP. This initially installed the Windows drivers for a USB Sound Card which didn't support 7.1 channels on the TOSLINK. Once I realised that this was the issue I ran the installation program on the supplied CD ROM and the correct drivers are now installed and it works just fine. Page 4 of the manual identifies the chipset used (C-Media CM6206) in case you have a problem finding the driver. Again I can play music & films and all the channels are used. I have briefly tested the other output sockets (headphone & surround outputs) and these all appear to be working. I have yet to use the two microphone sockets to see how good they are at capturing stereo sound. The LED on the device is useful. It flashes slowly when sound is being received, which is a good indicator if you are having configuration problems. The volume & mute controls work too. As for the quality, I've had no problem with this on the TOSLINK output. I no longer have a surround sound that would use the 3.5mm sockets, but may use it if at a friend's home, so I can't comment on their performance at this stage. Overall I am very happy with this product. It has done just what I wanted and works well. It definitely works with both Windows XP & 7.

Thank you for restoring the sound to my PC. An wonderful little device with the right speaker the sound is so good highly recommend this to anyone with a laptop or PC with poor sound card.