Review on Creative Labs Sound Blaster Play! 3 External USB Sound Adapter - Compatible with Windows and Mac - Plug and Play (No Drivers Needed) - Enhanced 24-Bit 96Khz Playback Upgrade by Agata Zimka Semeniuk ᠌

I bought it more like the same universal adapter for any headset, and not a sound enhancer. It is for this reason that play 3, and not 4 (there is exactly one 4pin connector in that one) or, say, G1 (also one). It more or less copes with this, but . Statics. Damn static. It looks like this: you listen to music on headphones from your phone, or you are conferencing. Everything is awesome. Then you are shocked in the ear and the computer loses the sound system. After 20 seconds, you start the driver, and he sees it again - you conference further, after 15 minutes it again shocks and the cycle repeats. It seems that there is a ground in the socket, but apparently it is somehow crooked. The battery is far away. This is probably not a problem for this instance, as there were exactly the same problems with the xonar - as a result, I changed the extension cord, the system unit (entirely to a new one) and the sound from the internal to the external, hoping that it would solve the problem - it did not. There are no such problems at home with a poppy, although there is no grounding in the outlet. Draw your own conclusions.