Sound Blaster Play!3 High Resolution USB DAC Amp and External Sound Card

I bought this USB sound card as my built in sound card on the motherboard was frustrating. The motherboard is an MSI B450 Tomahawk and the sound card is the Realtek unit. The drivers have upgraded, and made it worse. Sound stutters when playing music and I open another web page with ads or videos that want to play. Also, you could hear the mouse scrolling through the speakers. Really not good. So considered an internal sound card, but what I want, with either toslink or coax to feed a DAC, are not cheap. So, I look at this little device instead. I don't use it for headphones, but rather a 3.5mm to RCA cable instead that feeds my Amplifier. What a revelation! It is many many times better than the onboard sound card. The sound is cleaner, richer, deeper and really enhances streaming music and videos. Well worth considering over a number of onboard cards. Quite simply, for cost for sound quality, it is mightily impressive. Well worth it.

My HyperX Cloud IIs USB Soundcard was basically falling apart, so I had to choose between getting another one for £30+, but instead looked into separate external sound cards to see if I could make the headphones better by basically plugging into this Creative Sound Blaster Play! 3 instead of using HyperX's USB Soundcard (the little thing that the headphones plug into before you can plug it into the PC). I combined this with a DuKabel 3.5mm Extension TRRS 4-Pole Headphone Cable, and instantly the results were so much better. My motherboard is a Gigabyte B450M-DS3H so the onboard audio for it is budget and old, and this play! 3 blows that out of the water. Like everyone else says, you NEED to download the Creative Sound Blaster software from their website to gain the benefits, but once that was downloaded and all set up... Incredible improvement. One of the most obvious improvements is that with no music playing, and the volume at its highest, there was no audible hiss or any static. Just pure silence, as if the headphones were off. Since using it I have noticed less headaches and haven't needed to take my headphones off as much as before due to the previously annoying hiss that I got using the soundcard supplied with the headphones. For the price, it's great value for money and is like a day and night difference to getting an audio upgrade on a budget. I definitely feel that paying even just £10 or £20 more for one of Creative's better solutions would give even better results. However, for gaming I felt that the options provided by the software were disadvantageous - competitively. The surround sound was a bit lacking and weird, and when playing games I sometimes could swear that I would be hearing sounds in different directions than they are due to it so I keep it off, but the crystallizer always remained on. For casual play and music listening, the adjustable bass boost option and bass rollover gave a very nice customization and clean boost that magnified the experience.

Fabulous dongle with pretty much hifi quality sound.

Don't bother installing the Creative software and instead download Equalizer APO from Spundforge (it is free). The difference in sound quality is nothing short of miraculous

What a piece of cake to install this to upgrade the audio from my PC to my old 2.1 Sony powered speaker set up. I had wondered about connecting an amp and some passive speakers to the PC or getting some new powered speakers, possibly even Bluetooth. A friend suggested upgrading the DAC. So I did some research. To meet what I already had and without spending a fortune I plumped for this. Plugged it in to a USB, connected to the aux inputs via the 3.5 mm socket to the DAC, waited for it to install and hey presto. An immediate improvement in the quality of the audio output. Tested it against a few different genres of music and each one was noticeably improved. Audio seems brighter and less muddied. Best to download the Soundblaster SBX Studio software to tweek the audio output. A great investment at pocket money price. I'm sure spending more would have greater improvements but this has made an audible difference and ticks all the boxes for me. A great little addition.

My first purchase from the Warehouse, so was very nervous when receiving this.. shouldn't have been, the 'damaged box' was simply tape that had been removed. The device itself works like a charm, with the microphone hiss / static virtually completely removed, which was the reason i bought it in first place, this was literally plug n play for me with no drivers having to be forced installed. All in all I'm very happy, and another plus is that it supports the combination of mic and headset through one port. It doesn't sound much but having less wires is always a plus. If it helps, i use the combi of the Philips SHP9500 with the V-moda Boom Mic Pro.

Bought it foolishly after reading a number of glowing reviews. I have Behringer DT770 250ohm headphones, the reviews saidthe sound blaster offered the power for 250ohms. They do not, total waste of money as they are no louder than a mouse fart.

Works perfectly as an alternative the the official Sonos USB-C adapter to allow line-in to be used on the Era 100.

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Estupenda solución para una avería de salida de audio de un portátil, muy buen sonido con mayor volumen. Había probado otra tarjeta externa de otro fabricante (UGREEN), por poco menos, que funcionaba bastante bien pero el conector USB fallaba al moverlo perdiendo contacto, también con un sonido más que aceptable pero más bajo, por lo que decidí probar con ésta. En Windows 10 tenía ruido de fondo (hiss) que he solucionado cambiando el driver del dispositivo por el genérico USB, utilizo unos EarPods habitualmente. A partir de ese momento sin problemas. Los cambios los he hecho siguiendo estas opciones: Entrar en el "Administrador de dispositivos" de Windows 10 - Controladoras de sonido y video y dispositivos de juego - Sound Blaster Play! 3 - Botón derecho y Actualizar controlador o doble click -> Controlador -> Actualizar controlador - Examinar mi PC en busca de controladores - Elegir en una lista de controladores disponibles en el equipo - Seleccionar: Dispositivo de audio USB No he querido instalar ningún software de Creative de momento, por lo que en ese aspecto no tengo nada que opinar. Edito (Noviembre 2020) tras última actualización de Windows 10. Con cada nueva actualización parece que el driver vuelve a ser el de Creative y vuelve el ruido o hiss. El camino anterior no me ha funcionado bien, por lo que he seguido este otro: Botón derecho sobre icono altavoz en la bandeja de la barra de tareas Abrir Mezclador de volumen Pinchar icono Altavoces o Tarjeta de sonido General > Información de controladora -> Propiedades Cambiar la configuración Pestaña Controlador Y ahí ya sigue igual: Actualizar controlador Examinar mi PC en busca de controladores Elegir en una lista de controladores disponibles en el equipo Dispositivo de audio USB

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Work perfectly. Added sound to my Beaglebone Green. Very happy with this product.

Le son est très bon, facile à l'utilisation.