Vantec NBA-200U USB External 7.1 Channel Audio Adapter (Black)

WOW!!! I have never been so blown away in my life by such a little device! the drivers are simple and diverse, the sound is absolutely amazing for every genre of music and gaming, plus it is portable and easy to install! The only downside is that a headphone and speaker shouldn't be plugged in at the same time on the device, it doesn't prioritize the headphones. This little device is durable, portable, and sounds fantastic! the cheap price isn't because its discounted, its because its a STEAL! I'm not joking when I say this is completely worth the investment, buy this and take full advantage of your speaker set!Edit 10/6/14:Welp, after over a year, this little card is still satisfying as ever! However, I have some gripes I've found over the initial acquiring of this product:* The sound drivers are only meh. While they offer plenty of options to customize the type of sound, the EQ filters, the environment, and microphone and line-in settings, I've had issues forcing it to remember my profiles! It always tends to self-delete my customizations if I either plug it in to a different USB port, or if I try to reboot my computer. Sometimes it remembers, other times it doesn't. Also the UI of the program is not all that polished, but it is easy to use.* The Microphone is surround input, which means you need a splitter to actually make the audio input stereo instead of mono. There are 2 jacks on the side of the device for microphones, so you either need 2 microphones or 1 microphone with a 2 male --> 1 female 3.5mm splitter. Also, there are no settings for this in the driver program.* The headphones jack does not stop the audio output to the other speakers plugged into the device, so you can't use your headphones without having the other speakers still turn on, which is VERY annoying.Other than those major complaints, it's been working fine for me! Still sounds good, there are no issues with the jacks falling loose or becoming duds, the device is still very easy to use, and the line-in and S/pdif features work very well! Overall, still highly recommend it, but it's not quite as poise and polish as I thought it was when I first purchased it. Still a good value!

[Update: Sept. 4th, 2016]Download this:[...]Just run setup.exe, and restart your computer. You're good to go![Update: After experimenting for a while I discovered I didn't' have true 5.1 and/or 7.1 surround sound - Found a Fix]Hello again. (June 6th, 2015) update: I was tinkering around my sound card and noticed that I didn't have true surround output with the fix I showed to you. Fortunately there's a workaround for installing the program and outputting correctly the sound. This has been tested on Windows 10 Build 10130.Here it goes:1st. Download this file[...]2nd. Open it and extract its content anywhere, in the case of this example I'm going to open the file and copy and pastethe folder "CM6206-1.08(QR)" into my desktop. There will be a bunch of folders in there.3rd. DO NOT CLICK Setup.exe (I know you did it ;) )4th. Go to the extracted folder and head into "WIN81(WHQL)", there you will see a "Setup.exe" and "Setup.ex_" file YES, with the underscore at the end!.5th. Rename "Setup.exe" to "Setup.exe_bak" (or whatever)6th. Rename "Setup.ex_" to "Setup.exe"7th. Run "Setup.exe" by double clicking or pressing enter.8th. You will now see the "Installing USB Multi-Channel Audio Device". If it asks you to connect it, connect the device.9th. Restart your PC.10th. After restarting on the task bar at the right (system tray) you'll see a blue icon. Double click to configure11th. Enjoy! :D****ORIGINAL****Here's a quick guide on how to get working it on Windows 10 (and other Windows versions in case setup does not work):1st. Download this file[...]2nd. Open it and extract its content anywhere, in the case of this example I'm going to open the file and copy and pastethe folder "CM6206-1.08(QR)" into my desktop. There will be a bunch of folders in there.3rd. DO NOT CLICK Setup.exe (I know you did it ;) )4th. Plug in your device to your PC, wait for Windows to finish installing your device. (It doesn't matter if you plugged in the device before extracting the files, but before step 5 you need to have it plugged in!)5th. After Windows finished installing the device, head to Device Manager. To open it, press start and type "Device Manager" Or press Win + X, then M6th. Go where it says "Sound, video and game controllers", and find USB Audio Device. Right Click on it and select "Update Driver Software"7th: Click "Browse my computer for driver software"8th: Now, where it said "Search for driver software in this location, click "Browse". And go to the extracted folder, since in my case I extracted it to the desktop I head to the desktop, and open my folder.Go to this folder:(this is your extracted folder)CM6206-1.08(QR) => WIN81(WHQL) => SoftwareDriverWith SoftwareDriver highlighted, press OK.9. Click Next10. Wait for Windows to finish installing the drivers.11. Go to the Speaker icon at the right bottom of your taskbar. Right click and select "Playback Devices"12. Select "Digital Output" and then "Set Default". Press OK13. You now have setup your digital adapter! :D :D :DIn case you need to roll back to your previous configuration, repeat steps 11 - 12. Instead of selecting "Digital Output" select your original device.Now about the proper product, I've seen an increase in sound quality Sounds louder, brighter and deep bass can be appreciated. I'm no audiophile so I don't have that ability to perceive great sound quality... But for me it was worth the addition!Now rocking 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound in my Y510p ;)