[lukealexander]

Ah crap. I bought one today that looked exactly the same (but blue) and it just comes up as "USB Audio Device". No C-Media in site

 

[lukealexander]

Damn, this thing sounds like ****. Intrusive noise all over the place. Frequent pops and skips. Almost blew my ears out when I first turned it on. There is £6 I will never see again, since I will never use this again.

A word of warning: there is risk involved in buying these no-name goods!

 

[Some geek]

Good post RedLeader

I'm not going to be buying one any time soon but it was fun to read and informative.

And who can ask for anything more?

 

[Fidelity]

I bought something similar on ebay for £6 delivered, best used for voip mic headsets...

 

[LFC_SL]

Not gonna buy it, but a very fun and enjoyable read

 

[lukealexander]

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Originally Posted by Fidelity /img/forum/go_quote.gif I bought something similar on ebay for £6 delivered, best used for voip mic headsets...

Did you have the same issue I described? That is, terrible hissing.

 

[Fidelity]

Nope no hissing/popping or such.

It stays plugged to my rig all the time used solely for my Sennheiser mic/headset (comms/VOIP stuff only) which I reckon is what this "soundcard on a stick" is ideal for...

 

[RedLeader]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lukealexander /img/forum/go_quote.gif Did you have the same issue I described? That is, terrible hissing.

Sounds like you got a dud unfortunately. I was kind of surprised to see this thread resurrected, I've actually given this thing to a friend who now uses it with his HD580, I've moved onto a DPU-50.

 

[Hayduke]

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Originally Posted by spudman /img/forum/go_quote.gif How does $8 with free shipping sound? http://ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA4017.htm

Thanks Spudman

I think the built in audio in my PC isn't too bad, but for 8 bucks I had to try one hehe.

This will be my first source "improvement" since getting HD580s.. I hope I can tell the difference

 

[gychang]

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Originally Posted by kramer5150 /img/forum/go_quote.gif TBAAM have optical outputs? Garrett

it does, I use it everyday, I play TBAAM with analog out to Kenwood KR3600 receiver (those blue tuner lights...) into my home built speakers, sounds gloiorous. I also use Grado SR60 ear phones plugged into the receiver headphone jack.

For the price ($28) TBAAM is the way to go IMO, I play foobar-FLAC out.

gychang

 

[chris_ah1]

But the tBAAM seems to sample up to 48Khz pointlessly?

As for the poster's problem - I have some c-media USB headsets kicking aroudn that have the same problem.

 

[nightfire]

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_ah1 /img/forum/go_quote.gif But the tBAAM seems to sample up to 48Khz pointlessly? As for the poster's problem - I have some c-media USB headsets kicking aroudn that have the same problem.

Yeah; there was a reference to it in one of the documents on their site.

It sounds pretty bad... There was a huge difference for me going from its toslink to the Transit's toslink.

Mind you you can get around it by using a software upsampler that does a good job. If you feed it a 48khz signal from your PC it doesn't seem to touch it. And it's still a good deal for the price, I think.

 

[robert1325]

So how would this compare with my creative audigy 2 value souncard? I'm using px100's.... Or should I aim for something better?

 

[nightfire]

Quote:

Originally Posted by robert1325 /img/forum/go_quote.gif So how would this compare with my creative audigy 2 value souncard? I'm using px100's.... Or should I aim for something better?

I've never heard the audigy or px100's, so I can't really say. But, I would imagine their performance is pretty similar.

I would save up for something better personally.

 

[RedLeader]

Well I can only compare with a SB Live 24, but the stick beat it by a little bit IMO. Not sure about the Audigy though. I dunno, it's still just $8 either way