Creative Labs Sound Blaster Play! 3 External USB Sound Adapter for Windows and Mac. Plug and Play (No Drivers Required). Upgrade to 24-Bit 96Khz Playback

Seamless operation. Windoze default drivers work, but the unit seems to default to a big bass boost that can be too much. The SB drivers allow you to tune the sound back to normal. Also be sure to enable the 'high gain' if using headphones, otherwise the volume may not be sufficient. With default Win drivers, you might want to adjust the device sample rate to match your source material. Good power, enough to drive Senn HD560s headphones adequately.

Works great. Far better sound than what comes on the motherboard. Cheap and easy to set up

This WORKS! I bought some inexpensive speakers for my computer and wanted to also be able to hook up my headphones at times. Since they both needed the AUX output, I was looking for a USB adapter and found this. When I plugged my headphones in and listened, I realized that this was a miraculous device. They sounded really amazing! So... I switched it to the speakers and just like that, my little inexpensive speakers sound amazing! The way it is set up, I can go back and forth easily since I do not need to get to the back of the computer to do it. It was the perfect solution with the bonus of giving me much, much better sound quality!I am a very, very happy customer.

I've been a believer in Soundblaster stuff for a VERY long time, but the last time I got/used one was an Audigy notebook card that had to be inserted in a PCMCIA slot, and tended to be very glitchy interacting with the OE audio card/drivers. Once it was working though ... fabulous.Now I've moved on to a laptop with a PCIe/NVMe-based SSD boot drive running Windows 10, and as always, quickly realized its onboard sound card (Realtek) is junk for driving anything other than the teeny onboard speakers, so I went back to the Creative well to see what they've been up to these days. I was very happy to find this inexpensive, USB-based, "plug and play" Soundblaster card that seemed like it had all the same basic functionality I needed/used in my old card, so I bought it.I primarily use this device for listening to music from my MP3 collection at my workstation, which is equipped with a pair of bookshelf Infinitys, an Infinity powered subwoofer, dedicated rack amp and 15-band stereo equalizer. The Realtek output from the laptop headphone jack is "ok," but just doesn't deliver a signal with the gain/quality I'm used to hearing from MY rig … like putting kerosene into the gas tank of a Ferrari.So I plugged this thing in; it really is "plug and play" easy; overrode the Realtek audio card with no trouble of any kind, and, without doing anything more than that, I noticed a big improvement in both sound quality and signal gain. However, I still wasn't totally blown away like I was with my original Soundblaster card, and just figured, e.g., "oh well, whaddya expect for $20?"Then I remembered Creative has its own, custom drivers and software for this device, and figured I'd try that and see if it made any difference. The answer to that question is a RESOUNDING yes. Another boost in gain, but more importantly, I now heard the same crystalline frequency separation/response that I loved about my old Soundblaster card. All that 24-bit Soundblaster "mojo" is still in this little gizmo, but you can't stop/settle at just "plug and play" on generic audio drivers ... you really have to download and install Creative's custom drivers/software to get the best performance out of their device.Anyway, hope the review helps ... I feel that, when used with Creative's drivers/software, this device delivers everything it's supposed to, and is WELL worth the cost.

I love the sound of a well played bass guitar. Don't you? I think all the great bands had great bass guitarists. McCartney. Greenwood. Novoselic. The list goes on and on. Many of today's indie bands have great bass playing/composition. I think too many DACs these days are aiming for vocal clarity, detail digging and things that focus on the mid and higher frequencies of music. I like DACs like this one that can really make the beginning of Come Together by the Beatles sound fun and engaging, cuz that has to be one of the greatest opening bass riffs of all time, right? In fact, I use that song to test my audio equipment.This DAC delivers beautiful well-placed bass tones. Not the thump, thump part. The deep Dmmmm part.. That part of the song is placed more prominently and accurately than even the sacred, Dragonfly Black, which I also tested. The Black has better soundstage, but again, only if you're just not that into bass guitars.The sound might be a little distorted, but what do you expect from a DAC powered by device USB hosting? Even the Black is distorted (on the low end). It's not plugged into the wall, so... And at least this one doesn't have some stupid LED light wasting your battery or hurting performance or both.Considering all this, I LOVE THIS DAC!! It improved the sound of my Samsung Galaxy Tab A Android tablet that I have connected to a Tivoli Audio One by AUX Cable and and OTG cable (necessary or it won't work). The volume comes out a little low, but I can boost the volume on the Tivoli enough to a fun or even slightly obnoxious level. WIthout a powered amp/speaker situation like this, though, you might find this disappointing. The company does, however, make it clear that this item is NOT INTENDED FOR ANDROID/iOS. So that it works at all this way and this well makes me appreciate it and not be too picky about it's flaws.Hope that was helpful. Oh. AND IT ONLY COSTS LIKE TWENTY BUCKS! You can get five of these for one Black. I'm gonna get a second one just in case something happens to this one. Why not? So cheap!