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Question: Does this dramatically improve sound for headphones and speakers through laptop?Does it bypass the laptops cheap soundcard?like receiver right?
Document: While I have nothing to compare it to apart from the Sony receiver and the macbook soundcard, I feel like this is the best thing around for this price.I wish there were more reviews or other information on this product, but really these Amazon reviews are about it!I think I would like to pair it with an inexpensive tube amp next to see if it will color the sound a bit and warm it up some more. All in all I am happy with this purchase.
This unit works great. I just plugged it into my PC (Windows 7 Home 64-bit) and it worked flawlessly. I have speakers connected to the back and my headphones to the front. The little button on the left will toggle between the speakers or headphones. For those that are wondering like I was, the volume knob control the volume for both the headphones and the speakers. Some products like this will not control the volume for the speakers, but this one does.The build quality is great.
The system is basically a pair of desktop speakers combined with a second pair that are wired to a sub-woofer. When all of them were connected to a headphone port (using a splitter) on the old laptop, it worked and sounded good. What we learned was that the old laptop had a far superior sound card as compared to the new laptop. When the system was connected to the new laptop, only 2 speakers worked and the sound was horrible.
This gives me a traditional volume knob that increments higher and lower like a regular receiver/amp does. The sound is comparable to that of the Fiio (at least to my ears), but now I can listen to my higher quality audio files knowing they are not being downmixed in any way because of hardware limitation on my system. I'm very glad that I made the purchase not knowing much about the product.
Got this product as a Christmas gift for my father. He is an audiophile when it comes to speakers, but does not follow headphone technology. I figured this was a nice, inexpensive way to introduce him to the world of headphone amps. He is thoroughly impressed with the sound for the price, as am I. We tried it with his Sennheiser HD202 headphones -- admittedly, they are not high end, but the amp really makes them come alive.
Well, we were not sure this would be the right solution for us, but we are very happy with our purchase. My uncle's laptop was old, slow, vulnerable, and in need of replacement. His use of a laptop was primarily e-mail and surfing the internet - he had no need for a high powered machine, so we purchased a fairly inexpensive model with Windows 8 and a decent size screen. The one thing we didn't consider was my uncle's music habit.
I needed something that would have level control at my fingertips after adding a subwoofer to a pre-existing speaker system. I did not want to use the volume slider control in Windows. I ran RCA splitters out the RCA outputs to both the sub and the bose amplified speakers. Plugged it in and it was ready to go. Got the levels right at max volume for both amplifiers and it was all good.
The sound card was literally 'plug and play' for us - we hooked it up and it worked immediately. We did go to the computer's control panel and make some adjustments to the audio controls, but even without those adjustments, the sound card worked well out of the box. It delivered much more sound volume and fullness when compared to the laptop's internal sound card. We recommend this sound card for anyone looking to improve the sound quality and power output of a cheap internal sound card.
I am an electronic musician and avid music listener. I bought this external sound card / headphone amp because my laptop has neither. My desktop at home has an Asus Xonar Essence STX (an awesome $200 internal sound card w/ headphone amp) so this review is based on the comparison between that card and this $40 external card.First of all, for forty bucks, this is an awesome deal!
It's ok... Sound quality is only slightly better than my onboard audio. Doesn't seem that powerful, can't drive that much volume for my sennheiser over the ear headphones.
Answer: I don't know about all that improvement but it does remove the noise from from the computer and yes it does bypass the soundcard hope that helps