UGREEN UGREEN USB Sound Card Adapter with TRS 3.5mm Headphone & Mics

It's been an excellent option for recording; I use it with a separate audio console, a condenser microphone, and everything connected to a laptop. I can make all my recordings with it, and it delivers good audio quality. For the price, it's a fantastic option. Plus, it's easy to install on any other PC because it's USB. Just plug and play.

Good, inexpensive sound card. Use this to run the cables from my stereo system to my laptop so I can record the vinyl records I have. Need to use this now as it has the USB-A connection for the laptop and supports the 3.5mm input and output (I loop it back to the stereo system as I have an EQ that I use) as new computers no longer have separate 3.5mm jacks for in/out. This works out nicely.

Bought this to troubleshoot a pc, works easily and is auto detected by Windows with no special driver install required.

Had an AIO computer where the headphone jack didn’t boost sound and was just as quiet as a line out port. This thing did its job and produced amped up sound level

I needed a soundcard for my pc. The old one just died, I replaced it and that one made my pc crash every time you looked at it. I took a chance on this, not knowing how it would work. I have no regrets. It can't get any easier. Plugs into the usb port and into whatever speaker set up you have. Really, no instructions needed. Plug in the speakers and then plug into the usb port. done!

My son and I create content for youtube / twitch. The biggest challange is having 2 mics that he can work with that dont pick each other up (we sit about a foot away from each other when we game). I bought this so i can have a second mic input and convert one of my 3.5mm headphones to a usb. Works great with OBS. I can pick up 2 mics independently of each other (it comes through as a usb soundcard i believe), and both mics sound great without picking each other up. Some of this has to do with the headsets, i agree, but this device made it possible. As a side note, the 2 headsets im using cost about 25 each, so you dont have to break the bank to get non echoy audio into one source. Im actually here again on this page to order a second one in white, and figured i'd write a review at the same time. 12-3-19 : update : Ok, so after using these... the echo is still there. With my situation, i have 2 computers, with mics about 3 feet apart. Im looking for a solution where i can use both mics going into the same pc that wont have an echo. The only real solution to this would be to use an audio box. HOWEVER, just because this product didnt do what i needed it to do, is no fault of the product. This works as intended.

This adapter works well and is simple to use.

As a simple USB DAC for output (i.e. computer/device audio being played through headphones), this device works quite well. Frequency range is quite good, but this is no surprise considering CMedia's chipsets are decent at this, as the company has had nearly 2 decades to refine their ICs. However, the problems began with input (i.e. microphone). Testing was done using a MacBook Air (2017 model), OS X 10.14.6, and a Sennheiser GAME ONE headset with integrated mic. Most reviewers would write "the microphone didn't work", so I'll be more verbose: When the USB mic input volume in OS X was set to maximum, no audio could be heard unless I literally screamed into the microphone, after which the audio that was picked up was extremely low in volume whilst sounding compressed (distorted, crackling). It was as if the peak/gain was through the roof, something only controlled by the DAC itself. I got a replacement from Amazon, thinking the issue might have been just a bad port, but the same problem happened. Whilst anecdotal, I suspect the problem relates impedance (a.k.a. resistance). The GAME ONE headset is a high impedance headset and the microphone is likely subject to similar impedance levels as the cans themselves (though for mics this is output impedance, not input!). In other audio chipsets (e.g. Realtek), a feature called "Mic Boost" rectifies this by allowing the user to select a +10/20/30dB "boost" on the microphone, effectively providing more voltage. For this to work, the actual audio chip must support it, and the OS must offer control over it. The USB audio class specification does not provide a native way to toggle this capability (if available), but often drivers from the device manufacturer can provide it (the USB specification, specifically the descriptor data, does advertise however if the port is bus-powered or not -- but I did not do a descriptor dump to see see if this was enabled or disabled). If you're looking for a cheap USB DAC for your laptop that works with high impedance gaming headsets using separate 3.5mm jacks, and has no clearance issues with other nearby laptop ports: the DUSB352FB from DuKabel, a.k.a. "USB Audio Adapter, Gaming Headset to USB to 3.5mm Jack TRS AUX Adapter Built-in Chip USB Sound Card for Headset with Separate Plug [Metal Housing & Durable Braided]" worked great. They also make a 4-pole (i.e. TRRS-compatible) version called the DUSB351FB. Also worth noting is that the DuKabel products also use a CMedia chipset. There was extremely minimal crosstalk between output (headset) and input (microphone) with the DuKabel products (which likely can be explained due to use of the analogue jacks being on break-out wires; DuKabel should have done what UGREEN did, which is keep the jacks as close as possible to the IC and use a cable only between the IC and the USB port/plug), but hey, at least it worked!

This worked like a dream. Highly recommended. The only issue I have is the driver. It always makes the mike input the default, even though I didn't plug a mike into it. I have one on my camera.

It's small and easy to use. Is good for the price

Item works perfectly as described.

works very well and very easy to use.

I’ve got a good pair of headphones that the headphone jack on ps5 can’t really handle. The mic used to sound like a metal can attached to a string. Now that I’ve connected my headphones through this sound card, it sounds much better. The bottleneck is actually the console itself, because of its older sound architecture.