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Turtle Beach Micro II – PC and Mac USB Sound Card Overview The Micro II USB sound card adds a stereo analog output and an optic
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Simple, effective, portable,
This product works perfectly for me so far.
I have used this for months now, with no problems.
I haven’t had any problems with it, so I can’t comment on Turtle Beach’s customer service.
I use this device to send multi-channel, compressed audio (Dolby Digital, DTS) from my laptop to my home theater receiver.
I send the video stream via HDMI to my TV. My receiver is just old enough that it doesn’t have any HDMI inputs; only digital coax and Toslink.
My TV can pass on the audio to my receiver via Toslink (which is awesome for OTA broadcasts w/ multi-channel audio), but restricts the stream to 2-channel stereo if the source is HDMI.
So, using HDMI from my laptop, I’d never be able to watch a Blu-Ray disc in anything more than stereo.
That’s no good. I’d rather watch a DVD in 5.1 or 6.1 than a Blu-Ray in stereo.
This Micro II solved the problem.
It sends any audio format found on today’s DVDs, including all the variations of DOLBY and DTS.
(Note: those are the only formats you’ll get on Blu-Ray too, even though there are newer, supposedly better audio formats for Blu-Ray. This is b/c the new formats can be sent only over HDMI, not digital coax or Toslink.)
And the picture and sound were perfectly matched, despite passing over separate outputs.
I also like that this thing is sleek and minimal in it’s design. It takes up practically no space, requires no additional power source, and will fit easily in your laptop bag when you travel (although you probably won’t use this much while traveling).
Plus, the fact that it includes the mini-Toslink adapter is awesome (what a pain it would be to have to buy one more little thing just to make it work).
And the connection is very sturdy; it won’t pull out inadvertently.
The only annoying thing, to me, was that there was no way to select this device as the default output until I had installed the drivers from TB.
Yes, they are clear upfront that you’ll need the drivers to use the multi-channel output feature, but I thought the thing would at least show up in my device list.
Anyway, not a huge deal. Just go directly to the TB site and get the drivers.
Oh, and to those reviewers who are Mac users, why would you even buy this?
Unless your Mac is pretty old, it probably has a dual-use jack that functions as a headphone and Toslink output.
Just get a mini-Toslink adapter, which costs about five bucks (or less). You shouldn’t need any other device to send digital audio via Toslink.
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|Good sound, easy setup, works with Windows 2000,
I’ve decided to hide an old IBM laptop near my stereo
for use as a poor man’s Squeezebox. I used the “shared
folder” feature of windows to access my digital music
collection (purchased from eMusic, and stored on another
PC) wirelessly. Pretty nice — I don’t have to transfer
music to the laptop itself, which has only a small hard
drive.
I initially had an adapter cable running from the
“headphone out” on the laptop to stereo RCA cables
to the stereo. The stereo volume had to be cranked
up pretty high, and the sound quality seemed just okay.
I took the Micro II card out of the packaging, plugged
it into a USB port, and that was that. The laptop,
running Windows 2000, recognized it immediately and
I simply plugged my adapter cable into the Micro II.
I haven’t run any careful tests to compare the sound
of the Micro II to the sound chip on the laptop, but
subjectively the sound with the Micro II was a lot
clearer, and I could set my stereo volume as I would
normally when using the CD player. My wife said she
could hear a big improvement in the sound.
In short: totally simple to set up, works with my
Windows 2000 laptop, and seems to sound much better
than the laptop headphone output.
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|Works under Ubuntu!,
I am very happy to see that this usb audio card worked without any trouble or driver installs under Ubuntu 10.04. The “no driver required” is indeed true from what I have seen.
I bought this because the shielding of the motherboard’s audio output was terrible in my computer. The main use-case is listening to music via headphones, and for this it worked great! The volume levels coming out were actually shocking at first, but after adjusting the sound volume in Pulse Audio (global and device specific) everything sounds as it should.
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