Sound Card,Optimal Shop 6 Channel External Sound Card USB 2.0 External 5.1 Surround Sound Optical S/PDIF Audio Sound Card Adapter for PC Laptop Recording Compatible with Windows 10/8/7/ XP

I plugged this external sound card into a free USB port and it just worked, without any 'looking for drivers' routine. The sound is great. This solved the problem of my refurbished 32 gig RAM 1 Terabyte SSD computer I just bought from Amazon for under $179, having only a stereo output plug instead of a surround sound output like my old slow computer. I had surround sound computer speakers I wanted to continue to use.What's really nice is how easy it is to output the sound to HDMI, for watching computer videos on the big screen television, and hearing the sound through our entertainment center's surround sound speakers. I wrote the following note to myself: "To Watch Computer Videos on TV: Set the AV receiver to "Computer". On the computer, at the Windows icon at the bottom left of the screen, search for and click on "Sound Settings". Find "Choose your output device" and click on the down arrow. Click on 'AMD HDMI Output (AMD High Definition Audio Device)' The sound will now go through the AV receiver to the AV center's surround sound speakers! When you want to go back to the computer sound coming from the computer's surround sound speakers, in 'Sound Settings', choose 'Speakers (2-USB Sound Device)'" That's what I do and so can switch the audio back and forth from the computer to the entertainment center.So amazingly, this product worked, it was quite inexpensive, and it did not have driver issues, so was any easy install. I'm quite pleased.EDIT: Don't look for obscure drivers on the enclosed mini cd. Just plug in the USB cord. Don't worry that you don't have the usual "searching for drivers" routine. Just play some music. If need be, check that the output is correct under 'Sound Settings' as I described above.

I was charged a ridiculous .05 cents for restocking and whatever shipping damage apparently may have happened . WOW lol ... It's only .05 cents but man hours alone to collect that debt far exceed the amount and for the reason that I opened the box to determine whether it was defective or just my pcs . When hooked up to a brand new denon receiver from a fiber optic connection at 48khz the sound card produced nothing but crackling distorted sound . even after setting everything to 44.1khz . The settings to activate either the fiber optic or headphones is hidden well under speaker settings . So in the end I'm getting billed .05 cents restocking fee from this distributor for a defective product with no instructions on use . what a joke .

I bought this because my PC doesn't have an S/PDIF port, and I needed one to use my PC audio through my surround sound system. The product came on time, and looks nice. The audio quality seems okay so far.The only problem I had was the drivers. They come on a mini-CD, but thankfully I have a disk drive on my PC because it's pretty old. I was able to copy the files from the disk, which include folders for the drivers for Windows 10, 8, and previous. The sound control software it comes with is a little clunky, but has some pretty nice features.The only reason I give this product a three star review, is because it won't detect that the S/PDIF port has a cable in it. The only way I was able to get it to work was to use the Xear Audio Center program that comes with it.It starts out with only the speakers enabled, so I had to right click on the Speaker icon, click Speaker Settings, then click the list box on that screen, and set it to SPDIF Out. It still doesn't detect that there are multiple channels available for use, so i can't customize the volume for each speaker, but the surround sound does work.Perhaps it is user error, and I just didn't install the drivers correctly. I don't think incorrectly installing them is entirely my fault, because the drivers aren't easy to find. There are tons of folders in the files on the disk, and I can't seem to find the ones I'd need to install for the S/PDIF Out. Furthermore, in the windows device manager, it doesn't show the device, so I couldn't install the drivers for it if I found them.If anyone has some advice to offer to correct this, I'd love to listen. My back speakers in my surround setup are meant to be much closer than I can put them, so they're pretty quiet, and I'd like to increase the volume of them.Again, this product is great and fixes my problems, but I'd love to have the full functionality.

I had to search online for a driver made for Win 10. The company that makes the device doesn't have the drivers, just a PDF of the manual, which I used to get a more technical name for the device so I could find a driver and some software from a 3rd party. The software is good for individually adjusting speaker volume, which is handy for a homemade surround sound system.So far I have only gotten it to work with the Netflix app. Not the browser Netflix, not Amazon app or browser, nor HBO. I haven't tried any other major streaming services yet.I have not tried it for input.It wasn't too expensive, so I have no serious regrets.

Windows 10 notes:Install the drivers, otherwise you'll have a two-in, two-out Microsoft-driven device.Install the drivers and check out the applet by your system clock. Right-click to open, go to the speakers settings inside the app. RIGHT-CLICK THE SPEAKER ICON. There're more hidden features there. It's here that you tell it how you want to use the device - L/R, 5.1, 7.1, etc.Musicians - you'll probably want to disable all those funky built-in-fx while you're there. Non-musicians - you might like them :-)So far so good for me. I'm getting six discreet outputs for my Win10 system, bridged with a Behringer Uphoria via VB Audio Matrix and that's a very capable system.At this price you'd be crazy to not give it a try.