VoIPSolutionFarm.com

Price : $3.94

Features

• Instantly creates microphone in & audio out jack from any PC USB port
• Plug and Play. Easy installation
• USB powered, no external power required
• No need to reach behind your PC for audio jacks…..Compensates any desktop speakers with short 3.5 mm cable
• Supports 3-dimensional sound…..Virtual 5.1 sound effects…..Digital Class-B power amplifier…..27 Environment sound effects

 

Product Description

10 Band / Pre-set equalizer…..Great for Skype / Internet phones / Chat programs / MSN / Yahoo / ICQ and more

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-09-24
I have a stupid Creative Soundblaster soundcard that has a single input jack for both microphone and Line-In signals. Unfortunately, I continuously use microphone and Line-In level signals (radios, TVs), and with only a single input jack, I’d have to keep plugging and unplugging my microphone and the other devices.

This adapter creates a quick and easy [dedicated microphone jack.

I got this "3D Sound" Adapter for $5 on eBay from Hong Kong a year ago. Interesting to see it on Amazon.

I plugged a three foot USB extension cord into the back of my computer, plugged the adapter into the extension, and plugged my standard, [cheap desktop microphone into the adapter. It’s an arrangement that provides plenty of convenient cable length on the microphone.

The microphone appears in Windows XP as a "USB Phone." Go to Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Voice > Voice Recording, and select USB Phone to activate the USB microphone.

Then, when you open the standard Playback Control window, you can click Options > Properties, and under Mixer Device, USB Device will have been added to the available devices.

In my case, the Input jack on my Creative soundcard is now dedicated to Line In, and the USB Phone is always connected, too. No more plugging and unplugging.

I never use the Speaker Out on the adapter. My real soundcard has more functions than is be available on the simple adapter.

For a standard, desktop computer-microphone that I found for $5 at a flea market, the adapter turned it into a USB microphone, and the audio reports I get when using it on Skype are excellent. The green-yellow-red bar-graph on Skype indicates the USB Microphone is providing full audio — I have to move my mouth at least a few inches from the microphone to avoid going into the yellow and red, which would indicate distortion.

On Skype, the variable slider that normally adjusts the microphone sensitivity is inactive — grayed out — which would be frustrating if the microphone provided insufficient signal output. But since it is sufficient, then moving the microphone a few inches closer or further from my mouth is sufficient to get the proper level output. It’s not a touchy "adjustment."

At first, I was annoyed that there was no " 20 dB Boost" or level-adjustment available on the USB Microphone, as I was used to having on microphones attached to the real soundcard. However, as I said, those adjustments aren’t necessary since the system works.

With my microphone on the USB line and my Audio Output coming from the sound card, I’m unable to make noises in my microphone go out my loudspeakers. Apparently, that experiment only works if the microphone and audio-output are on the same sound device. Not being able to amplify piggy noises is not much of a loss.

For proof that the USB microphone is working, I use the Test Call function on Skype to test the microphone activity [and the loudspeaker, which records and plays back a few seconds of my speech, so I can see how it sounds. Not bad. Also, I can use the USB Microphone with the computer’s "Recording" software (sndrec32.exe), which also indicates (and plays back) if the microphone is working.

Review date : 2008-07-25
I like this product but its not great.

PROS: works as soon as you plug it in(xp,) great sound quality when used for videos, cheap alternative to getting usb headphones, inner components seam sturdy.

CONS: It suffers when trying to listen to music, as far as built quality goes the casing on mine was a bit cheap

THOUGHTS: on one side it wasn’t pushed together all the way so i pushed it together and I thought that i might have broken it a little so I wrapped some tape around it to help keep it from breaking, just in case.

This is a good product for people who need this kind of device but if you plan on listing to music then your going to be disappointed.

Review date : 2008-07-03
Got this for an old dell desktop that doesn’t have a sound card. Bottomline: cheap as crap but works real nice. You might have to fiddle for a few minutes but after that it works fine. I think that had more to do with speakers or headphones that the card itself. Can’t beat it for the price.

Review date : 2008-05-25
The sound quality is terrible especially at higher volumes, and there is absolutely no volume control. I have a Dell Inspiron with the buttons on the front and they’re absolutely useless with this device. Linux sound is screwy as well.

Review date : 2008-04-13
Unfortuntaly my 3D Sound stick is already broken after about two weeks of use. The sound was really fuzzy and crackly. I was very disappointed!