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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 Itthipon Thiamwong ( ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The purchase brought only positive emotions.

I read and looked at a lot of reviews on external sound cards, read reviews and so on. The fact is that I needed a device in two directions at once - and an excellent sound (at least for headphones of the middle segment) and that the microphone recorded cleanly and perfectly. Without going into details, I cannot shove my chic soundcard scarf into the case, the heat from the vidyashka ventillators will kill it. That's why I was looking for an external one. Too expensive options dismissed immediately. Tweeters from aliexpress in the form of such rectangular flash drives with two outputs each - I have a car, they are none. I watched reviews of different ones and realized, both from reviews and reviews, that this Play3 card is at the junction of cheapness and quality, at the cutting edge, one might say. I will immediately mark a lot of reviews here on the market or in online stores. If you turn on headphones in realtek on the motherboard and then turn on this card and you don’t hear the difference - either the headphones are too cheap to transmit it, or you are not picky about audio frequencies at all. And you need to check it like this - take a perfectly made sound, preferably in something like Flac and headphones of the middle segment, at least. Well, a normal player. Plug the soundcard into it all and immerse yourself in the frequencies of the music. Oh yeah . after installation - the sensations are the same as from beautiful expensive hifi players. I'll warn you - I personally am against creative software, it's not the first time I've come across it and it's always too confused and for me it spoils the sound quality. This is no exception, the built-in driver in win10 allows you to give out great sound and write cleanly from the microphone, I didn’t find any noise. The noise in the microphone appears only if the wind checked. The price for it could be lower, the software from the creative could be better, it doesn’t help at all, as for me, it’s better to throw it away, as well as a short wire of 8 centimeters, inflexible - a strange decision, hanging from the back. And in terms of quality, the card itself pleased me unrealistically, believe me, my hearing is good and after many even new ones. sound cards - this card just tears everyone, well, except for the already expensive segment.

Pros
  • Everything is great, except (in shortcomings). There is a chic processing chip here, the wiring itself at Creative has also always been at a high level.
Cons
  • Price, inflexible short uncomfortable wire, only two budget outputs, no digital sound output, disgusting software from the creative itself.