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| 42 of 46 people found the following review helpful  Not recommended – better alternatives for same price, By 501(c)Geek (San Francisco, CA) – See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: HDE 7.1 Channel USB External Sound Card Audio Adapter (Personal Computers) We bought this to evaluate its suitability as a headset adapter for use with Skype on Macintosh. We found that it is inferior in all respects to a similar product by the same manufacturer, the Syba SD-CM-UAUD USB Stereo Audio Adapter, C-Media Chipset, RoHS. Avoid this 7.1 version and get the simpler one for the same price that lacks the chintzy buttons, has correct color coding, a smaller and shorter housing, better build quality, and is better identified in OS X. As other commenters have noted, the exterior buttons are very flimsy and do feel like they could break with a strong push. Their only function is to send a signal to the computer to change the software volume level, which can also be easily done using the volume control in the operating system or via the keyboard if it has multimedia buttons. On many computers the USB ports are inaccessible anyway, so why bother adding these cheap buttons that weaken the whole case, when many people can’t even reach them? The jacks are color coded in yellow and black, not the standard pink and green that headset jacks use. For what possible reason? Yellow plastic was cheaper? They are also labeled with tiny icons that are very hard to tell apart, and the labels are not next to the jacks but on the top face with all the buttons. The USB plug on our unit is angled off-center, again suggesting shoddy construction. On the plus side – it does work as advertised. Although the device is identified as “Unknown USB Audio Device” by OS X, it does input and output sound fine, and loudly. The chipset is advertised on the box as the C-Media CM119, and it’s a USB 2.0 device. The “virtual 7.1″ gimmick appears to be “3d surround sound” software by Xear, which comes on a mini-CD and is Windows only. I think it’s safe to say this is basically a non-feature. It would be a marginally acceptable solution to using a headset with a Mac or other computer that lacks a headphone jack, but again the similar yet entirely superior Syba SD-CM-UAUD USB Stereo Audio Adapter is a far better choice. See my review of that device on its product page for more info. 18 of 20 people found the following review helpful Does what it is supposed to but falls victim to poor craftmanship, By Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: HDE 7.1 Channel USB External Sound Card Audio Adapter (Personal Computers) The adapter is as easy as it gets to use right out of the box and worked well as a substitute to my faulty laptop headphone jack, but the quality of the device itself is very poor. I have had mine for a month or so and it has fallen apart completely. Upon receipt, I noticed that the outer case was already separating, and within a couple of weeks the headphone contacts began to disconnect so I had to continually find the “sweet spot” to get any audio to come out of the headphones. As cheap as it was, it served as a good experiment but it is not something that I will waste my time or money on again. 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful  Missing Software, Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: HDE 7.1 Channel USB External Sound Card Audio Adapter (Personal Computers) This is currently shipping **withöut** the sofware CD indicated in the Product Description, which states: “Package Includes: Nor does the software seem to be available for download on the Internet. |
