Cubilux 7.1 USB Surround Sound Card- 48KHz-384KHz Sample Rate Compatible with Headphones, Full Aluminum Alloy USB A External Sound Card for Laptop PC-Supports Line-in & Stereo Mic in

I use Logitech z906 surround speakers. Getting them working with the Nvidia Shield is a mixed bag, as some apps will transmit encoded surround over HDMI and others will use PCM or decode the media audio and then transmit PCM. Using the HDMI and an optical cable works fine for the former. But PCM audio is a little trickier. This works as an excellent way to get PCM or decoded surround sound out of the shield and into the speakers. Specifically for game streaming or for Plex or other players that decode the audio. I previously used another USB audio interface but the 9.2 shield update broke the functionality and would only play sound out of the front speakers. Probably because that audio interface was using an ancient chip. This worked right away with zero hassle. The shield immediately recognised it as an audio interface and when selected output surround sound perfect on the first try.

I needed an external soundcard to connect my external 5.1 speakers to a new laptop. I'm used to internal soundcards inside desktop PCs so I wasn't sure what to expect. I've now been using the Cubilux for 2 weeks and it is solid, well built and sounds great for streaming movies and boxsets. It is also tiny - much smaller than I expected - but is working well with the new Dell. Power comes from the USB cable and it didn't require any driver updates. All in, sound quality is good, build quality is good, size is v small and there have been no issues. Would happily buy it again.

Its great. Looks neat and does what its supposed to do. Plug and play.

Having tried other devices to connect my new PC with an old/legacy 5.1 sound system, this one seems to work. Sorting out connections is often quite a laborious task, and this was the case here. However, this device is plug and play and my new pc recognised it without any trouble. You need to work through the set-up which is mainly to be expected, but eventually I got there. I'm not sure the woofer connection is great, but I had been led to believe that there might be some issues and sound degradation, but overall a pretty reasonable device for the money. Also has a handy adaptor for USB ports and there is no additional power supply required.

As described a good device.

Does what it is supposed to (at least for my purposes). On buying a new windows 11 laptop I found the integrated 3.5mm jack has no line in functionality. This little plug and play box worked a treat. I thought about buying a cheaper one but they didn't have a dedicated line in and I was worried a cheaper one would not have solved my problem.As soon as lead plugged into the line in jack on the box, laptop recognised it as default recording device. The default signal was quite low for the input I was using, but this was easily rectified by adjusting the settings via control panel/sounds. Very happy with this.

I needed to replace my Asus U5 5.1 external usb sound card as there were no digitally signed win 11 drivers available and Asus no longer supported the device. I found this unit which had all the inputs I required, but I was sceptical because of how cheap it was. The installation was very easy, you do need to use Windows control panel to set the device to 5.1 surround sound and then you're set to go. I wasn't after high fidelity sound just the ability to use my current surround system as intended. I know there are internal sound cards I could have used but due to my particular motherboard and the number of nvme drives installed there were no free pcie slots available I could use. My one slight gripe is that if the speakers are powered on before you start your PC then you get a very loud click sound as the usb ports are initialised, other than that I'm more than happy with the product.

While this Cubilux 7.1 USB Surround Sound Card worked, the device was excellent and helped solve sound problems on my PC. But after a few days it was no longer recognised by my PC, even though there was bleep when plugging it in. The same happened on my second PC after it failed on the first. A bleep, but then nothing when I tried to select it as my speaker output. I then tried it from scratch on my laptop and it was not recognised at all. The Help offered on the Amazon site gave lots of instructions of how to get the PC to recognise it, but all to no avail. The Cubilux 7.1 USB Surround Sound Card itself had stopped working, although the blue light came on. So I have had to return it, which is a pity because it was really useful for what I needed it for.