Plugable USB Audio Adapter with 3.5mm Speaker/Headphone and Microphone Jacks (Black Aluminum; C-Media HS 100B Chip; Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux Enable USB connectivity with your existing 3.5 mm audio headphones, headset, speakers, or microphone Perfect to bypass a faulty sound card, audio port, or as a replacement for a broken USB audio adapter Leave connected to a USB hub or dock to avoid unplugging No drivers necessary. Fully plug and play. Compatible with any standard USB Audio Class enabled system including Windows XP through 10, Linux, Mac OS X and Google Chromebook Adapter is lightweight, extremely compact, and constructed of durable aluminum in a black finish No additional drivers necessary. Compatible with standard built-in &#034;USB Audio Class&#034; drivers which are already integrated into most operating systems including Windows 10, 8.1/8, 7, XP, Linux, Mac OS X and Chrome OS The USB Type A connection gets plugged into the computer and you gain one 3.5 mm (1/8 inch) stereo output jack and one 3.5 mm (1/8 inch) mono microphone input jack The USB-AUDIO is USB bus powered, so no external power is needed The USB-AUDIO has been designed to accommodate common headsets which feature a 3.5mm TRS headphone- and 3.5mm TRS microphone jack. If you have a TS microphone, a 3.5 mm (1/8 inch) mono to stereo adapter is necessary to adapt the microphone from TS to TRS (plese see descriptive image below). XLR based microphones (even if adapted to a different interface such as 3.5mm TRS) will <span class="a-text-bold">not</span> work with this audio adapter. 48V of additional Phantom Power is needed to make this work. The audio adapter does not provide Phantom Power. Although the microphone port on this audio adapter is TRS, it is still however a mono microphone port. If you playback the recorded audio you technically hear the right channel duplicated. The adapter is <span class="a-text-bold">not compatible</span> with the HyperX line of headsets due to an incompatible plug configuration for the built-in microphone and their included single plug to double plug adapter.