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4.5
My laptop headphone jack was loose rendering it useless for headphones. Purchased this Hagibis USB External Sound Card Adapter in February and have been using it daily since then (now August) and it has proven an inexpensive and simple fix. I am totally satisfied with this purchase.Decent but not great sound. It doesn't improve computer sound but it does its job in case a problem with computer sound card. What can you expect for that price?does good, had it for over a year and is still workingWorks well for Raspberry Pi 4B. The built-in 3.5-mm jack is indeed a dual function headphone/microphone jack that gets recognized correctly by Raspberry Pi.It does the job. Needed this to use an auxiliary mic. Plugging it in thru USB keeps the internal speakers on the laptop from cutting out.I recently switched computers, and on the new system, I noticed the built-in audio had some high-pitched electrical noise. Obviously I didn't want high-pitched screeching in my ears at all times, so I got this converter.However, I wasn't thinking when I got it, and I didn't check the audio quality...I, (and probably most other people) usually listen to audio with 24-bit quality at 44.1 KHz. Unfortunately, this thing can only run 16-bit audio at 44.1 or 48 KHz... I honestly didn't notice RIGHT away, but then I listened to a song that has some fairly complex effects at the beginning, and it was IMMEDIATELY obvious that the device couldn't handle it. It sounds very messed up. Sounds incredible on the on-board audio though.I also did a quick test switching back and forth between the converter and my on-board audio, and it was immediately clear that my on-board audio sounded a LOT better.Again, it works fine, and some people probably wouldn't even notice. But to me, it feels similar to watching videos at 720p when you could watch them in 1080p. Or like playing video games at 30fps when your computer could easily handle 60fps.I honestly think I'm just gonna go back to the on-board audio for the time being. I don't like the noise, but it's not super loud, and I'd rather have a tiny bit of noise when there's nothing playing than have all my audio play in low quality.I almost thought I'd bought a lemon and was half way to requesting a refund.But I found out that was a bit premature of me. When I first plugged in my audio aux head into the slot and USB slotted it into my laptop there was no audio sound. I tried playing a movie. No sound. I tried watching a video on Youtube, still no audio.It wasn't until I noticed I had not completely pressed in the audio aux head into the audio jack slot of the Hagibis USB External Sound Card Adapter. After correcting thi, I put on my headset and ... still no audio output. After about 10 minutes of fiddling, it struck me that I had not adjusted the audio icon on my laptop menu bar. After setting it as the default USB audio hardware and one or two other tweaks my headset came alive.Audio is crystal clear with no static noise. In fact I tested my laptops speech recognition using this and it worked great.And the price can't be beat.A definite recommend.Hope this review helped.I was gifted an old Dell Inspiron 15 which I breathed new life into with an SSD and 16gb of ram from Crucial.After a while the headphone jack started to cut out, so I got this, and it works really well.It does take up a usb 2.0 port and sticks out of the machine a bit, but it sounds great and lets me (once again) use headphones.Windows 11 caused issues with my on board sound card, this was a brilliant value solution.I bought this primarily for online chat/meeting via google or Skype etc using my headset/earbuds while working remotely. The built-in mic on my laptop/desktop is simply too crappy and nobody can hear me clearly. Apparently this is a common issue for many people which I find surprising in this day and age. This little device came to the rescue. In addition, I use this for listening to music as well.I've tried this on all versions of Windows starting with Win7 and various distributions of Linux such as CentOS and Ubuntu, all of which require no manual installation of drivers of any sort and I was able to use it almost immediately after plugging it into a USB port on a desktop/laptop. It's true plug'n'play and the C-Media HS-100B chip it uses is what makes this happen.The sound quality is very good and on par with the built-in 5.1 sound card and the mic produces clear voice/sound as far as I can tell (told from the receiving party). The price is the best for what it does and this adds value to the product.If you have a mic that simply refuses to produce voice/sound that's loud and clear enough for the other party to hear you whether in an online meeting or game playing, this device will most likely serve you very well.The build quality appears decent and the sound quality is excellent. As for the durability, particularly the 3.5mm connector, which is often the first thing to break for this type of device, only time will tell.Highly recommended for those who find their onboard audio inadequate and just want to use something that works.Le signal wifi est difficile à récupérer après un arrêt ou une simple pause. Il devient laborieux de devoir continuellement retourner dans le système pour éteindre et réactiver les écouteurs comme périphérique de son. Même en utilisant le bouton de commande sur les écouteurs le signal est souvent impossible à récupérer. Comme le prix était raisonnable et que je ne me sers pas continuellement de ces écouteurs, je considère que c'est un produit qui convient à mes besoins sans plus.It is just like other reviews say - very noisy output circuit, continuous background "white noise", and barely discernible inputcircuit - microphone is very, very quiet.Almost useless, though it does function. Just really miserable electronically. Packaged niecly though, looks like an actually decent product... but just looking like that. Unfortunately.I think it is a great little device in terms of design and construction. Unfortunately, it did not work well as a microphone input adapter. For reasons unknown Apple eliminated the microphone 1/8" plug on their recent iMacs. Microphones which employ a USB interface work fine. I had hoped this converter would give me that ability so I could use a higher end microphone on my Mac. But, it does not work even though the specifications seem appropriate.
