Cubilux USB A 7.1 External Surround Sound Card with Line In and Mic In

This allowed me to connect my 5.1 surround sound speakers to a single stereo output jack on my PC (which is all modern PC's seem to have). Works seamlessly and sound quality seems fine.

Plug and play with modern Linux distributions. I'm using Linux Mint and it works out of the box. The unit is very well made and is really small, making it suitable for use with a laptop computer. The unit detects when headphones or loudspeakers are plugged into it and the audio control application adjusts its menu and sliders accordingly, allowing stereo or one of a number of configurations including 2.1, 4.0, 4.1, 5.1 and 7.1. Note that it only has analogue i/o so it isn't suitable if you're looking for optical or SP/DIF connectivity, but that's clearly stated and what it does it does extremely well.

I use Logitech z906 surround speakers. Getting them working with the Nvidia Shield is a mixed bag, as some apps will transmit encoded surround over HDMI and others will use PCM or decode the media audio and then transmit PCM. Using the HDMI and an optical cable works fine for the former. But PCM audio is a little trickier. This works as an excellent way to get PCM or decoded surround sound out of the shield and into the speakers. Specifically for game streaming or for Plex or other players that decode the audio. I previously used another USB audio interface but the 9.2 shield update broke the functionality and would only play sound out of the front speakers. Probably because that audio interface was using an ancient chip. This worked right away with zero hassle. The shield immediately recognised it as an audio interface and when selected output surround sound perfect on the first try.

Having tried other devices to connect my new PC with an old/legacy 5.1 sound system, this one seems to work. Sorting out connections is often quite a laborious task, and this was the case here. However, this device is plug and play and my new pc recognised it without any trouble. You need to work through the set-up which is mainly to be expected, but eventually I got there. I'm not sure the woofer connection is great, but I had been led to believe that there might be some issues and sound degradation, but overall a pretty reasonable device for the money. Also has a handy adaptor for USB ports and there is no additional power supply required.

I needed to replace my Asus U5 5.1 external usb sound card as there were no digitally signed win 11 drivers available and Asus no longer supported the device. I found this unit which had all the inputs I required, but I was sceptical because of how cheap it was. The installation was very easy, you do need to use Windows control panel to set the device to 5.1 surround sound and then you're set to go. I wasn't after high fidelity sound just the ability to use my current surround system as intended. I know there are internal sound cards I could have used but due to my particular motherboard and the number of nvme drives installed there were no free pcie slots available I could use. My one slight gripe is that if the speakers are powered on before you start your PC then you get a very loud click sound as the usb ports are initialised, other than that I'm more than happy with the product.

I needed an external soundcard to connect my external 5.1 speakers to a new laptop. I'm used to internal soundcards inside desktop PCs so I wasn't sure what to expect. I've now been using the Cubilux for 2 weeks and it is solid, well built and sounds great for streaming movies and boxsets. It is also tiny - much smaller than I expected - but is working well with the new Dell. Power comes from the USB cable and it didn't require any driver updates. All in, sound quality is good, build quality is good, size is v small and there have been no issues. Would happily buy it again.

Does what it is supposed to (at least for my purposes). On buying a new windows 11 laptop I found the integrated 3.5mm jack has no line in functionality. This little plug and play box worked a treat. I thought about buying a cheaper one but they didn't have a dedicated line in and I was worried a cheaper one would not have solved my problem.As soon as lead plugged into the line in jack on the box, laptop recognised it as default recording device. The default signal was quite low for the input I was using, but this was easily rectified by adjusting the settings via control panel/sounds. Very happy with this.

Its great. Looks neat and does what its supposed to do. Plug and play.

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Es lo que yo esperaba calidad precio y el producto llegó antes de lo previsto. Muy satisfecho con la compra

I have had my CA7 for about 2 months now and it works great. no problems what so ever and works great with my 5.1 setup. No drivers, no software just plug in and go. Who could ask for something so easy. Sound is good and on par with my old sound card that died.

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I picked this up expressly to connect my old 5.1 Logitech speaker system with triple-AUX (3.5mm, front/center/rear) inputs to a brand new mini PC that's being used for media, and it works marvellously - truly plug and play. Sound quality is quite good, though the formats on 5.1 surround are limited (which is mentioned in the product description so you know what to expect). Build quality is also very good. My one word of caution if you are buying for a PC to play streaming services like me is streaming services DO NOT support 5.1/7.1 surround audio on a Windows PC over an AUX/USB connection. Netflix will support Dolby 5.1 if you have 5.1 equipment connected and detectable over HDMI, but otherwise none of the big ones (Netflix, Youtube, Disney Plus, Prime) will play more than stereo + subwoofer audio, which is INCREDIBLY disappointing. This still works well to connect a speaker system if you have it already, which is probably where most people would want it anyway, just don't waste your time trying to get 5.1 working in any of the streaming services, it will only worked for downloaded files and DVD/blu-ray playback.