Turtle Beach Voyetra TBS-1120-01 USB Drive
Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro - This USB home theater audio device gives you a realistic 5.1 surround sound experience on a standard set of headphones! You don't even need surround sound audio to begin with either. Even stereo music gets the surround sound treatment with the Audio Advantage. There's even a built-in S/PDIF output for pass-through of Dolby Digital & DTS sound to digital speaker systems or home theater A/V receivers. Audio Control Center software included
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Turtle Beach Voyetra TBS-1120-01 USB Drive Reviews
Would have been nice, but for what I'm using it for, I don't need the other stuff. So now I can remotely play music wirelessly from my laptop. The sound quality is great too as I'm using an optical (TOSlink) cable to hook it up to my z5500s. The only limitations: there's only a single optical output (there is a converter to go to 3.5mm) but there are no other outputs or inputs at least for a mic input. I had virtually no problem installing this device and it was recognized immediately under Debian. This product saved me from spending $100 on a "Soundbridge" networked audio player. Instead, I have this plugged into a Linksus NSLU2 with MPD (Music Player Daemon) running so that I can play music (local or streamed) right off the NSLU2.
or, better yet, takes its spdif out and drive an external dac and then go to some amp and phones. I have a hardware device that shows the actual bitrate on the toslink cable and when I play ripped cd's it shows 44.1 and when I play dvd's it shows 48k (all what you'd expect and want). again, you should use an external portable amp and let this dongle be a line-out (not phones-out) device.
most creative brand products do but this one is made by c-media and that company's chips generally do NOT do playback *forced*resampling*. analog out is also quite good. fwiw, I've just verified that this devices DOES NOT RESAMPLE audio to 48k (from cd 44.1k). this has a pretty decent DAC and line-out stage (the usb dongle thing).
it really isn't half bad; low noise and low distortion. I'm feeding an external amp (pimeta DIY, highly recommended btw) and hd580 phones.
1) Click on the Palm icon on the systray > Control Panel > SPDIF. For this, you just have to:. It works flawlessly with VLC player and High Definition movies with Dolby@640kbps and DTS @1.5Mbps audio. I wanted this USB card as a cheap way to get optical out from my PC to my Home Theater system. It won't give you 5.1 sound via SPDIF for your games (as it doesn't have Dolby Digital Live encoding), but if you're a fan of HTPCs and don't care about lossless audio, it's all you need. 2) On VLC, Preferences > Audio > Use SPDIF and Output type > Win32 WaveOut extension output.
Great price. Excellent product. My laptop's integrated sound died, replaced it with this - noticeable difference in sound quality
don't know about other users experiences - perhaps an older version of OS X causes problems, but this seems to work just fine w/ a mac mini running 10.5.3.
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