Plugable USB Audio Adapter with 3.5mm Speaker-Headphone and Microphone Jack, Add an External Stereo Sound Card to Any PC, Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux – Driverless
$9.95
Price: $9.95
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Convenient Audio: Connect your 3.5mm audio headphones, headset, speakers, or microphone to USB with this USB to Audio Jack Adapter
Great Replacement: Ideal for replacing faulty USB sound cards or audio ports
Always Ready: Lightweight, compact USB Sound Adapter made of durable aluminum; perfect for leaving connected to a USB hub or dock
Easy Install: Plug-and-play on various devices without needing additional drivers; compatible with Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, Linux, Raspberry Pi OS
Enhance Your Setup: Perfect for Raspberry Pi 5 and systems lacking 3.5mm audio jacks; improve your audio experience
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Customers find the audio adapter easy to use and convenient. They find it works well for the price, is inexpensive, and a great value for voice chat or Zoom/Skype type uses. Many customers are satisfied with the build quality. However, there are differing opinions on sound quality, width, and size.
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10 reviews for Plugable USB Audio Adapter with 3.5mm Speaker-Headphone and Microphone Jack, Add an External Stereo Sound Card to Any PC, Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux – Driverless
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T. Catranis –
Impressive for the price
This Plugable 1/8 audio plug to USB adapter works very well for the price. It is easy to use and operates immediately. I found little to no extraneous noise or interference.It is a little wider than a normal USB plug, but that is rarely a problem since I do not need plug in two Usb item on the same side.We have used this adapter as a simple way to connect our Behringer mixer to a computer for recording. It worked with or without connecting headphone. If you try to use headphones to monitor through the computer there will be latency. All USB connectors have some latency. That is why there is a headphone connector on this adapter.If you are looking for the absolute best audio adapter to connect to your computer you should use an audio interface (about $90 – $300 for a decent device).We have also used the adapter to connect a mic directly into the computer without a mixer. When using mics, please take note of any phantom power requirements.I have tried several other adapters. This one seems to be the most consistent and has the lowest noise.Remember, if you are using Audacity, you will need to plug it in, and then start the app. Audacity will not likely identify new USB mics with the app is running. Quit and restart the app.Responding to some reviews:You should read the description.It is designed for TRS, not TRRS plugs. If you have a lavaliere with a TRRS plug, like I do, you will need to use a TRRS to TRS adapter. It is a simple thing and most lavalieres come with the adapter. TRS has two lines in the plug and TRRS has three.Make sure you have the plugs firmly connected. This is sound equipment which means that the noise will occur if you do not connect the devices properly.You can connect headphones in the plug to get immediate, no latency, monitoring. No device has zero latency if you listen through the computer while recording.Check the quality of your mic. Some mics will have cord and connector issues.Check your computer’s USB ports. I may be that they are not equally set up. It may also be that they are not exactly the same USB. Check the color of the port. Also, some computers will have slightly different signal strength from one or the other USB ports.Best practice would be to use an audio interface, but many of us try to save money. This item is ay good, low cost alternative for the analog to USB conversion until you move up to an interface.
Shirley M Dulcey –
A handy little dongle that gets the job done
On the surface this seems like a pretty basic peripheral. Jacks for headphones and microphone, USB-A for your computer. Only 44.1/16 audio; no options for higher sample rates and/or higher bit depth. But there are a couple of things that elevate it above most other similar low-end devices.First, it has been totally plug and play on everything I have tried it on. Windows, Mac, Linux, and even an Android phone with a USB-A adapter; just plug it in and everything works. No drivers to track down, no wait for drivers to download over an internet connection. You get sound in and out, and the volume controls work properly. I have tried a number of similar devices that can’t do that. It’s handy for to have around for Linux single board computers, including the Raspberry Pi, that have no audio jack or only have a very low quality one supported by PWM in software. And if you have a computer where the internal audio is broken, or doesn’t have stereo inputs, or you need an extra input or output or two, it will fill in the gap.Second, it has STEREO inputs. The microphone jack can handle a two channel input, something that most similar dongles at this price can’t do, including some other brands that look nearly identical.It won’t suit all use cases. If you’re looking to attach a headset or earbuds with a microphone, it’s not what you’re looking for; it doesn’t support a TRRS input with headphones and microphones on the same plug, like you used to find on cell phones. (You could make those work with an adapter but it’s simpler to just use something else.) It can’t provide phantom power for your fancy condenser microphone. (But you should be connecting that to something better than a $10 dongle.) The sound quality and noise floor are fine for an inexpensive device, but it’s not going to replace your high audio interface.All in all, if this addresses a problem you have, or if you are a computer experimenter and troubleshooter who wants an extra tool in your toolkit, this interface is a good choice. If you’re putting together a traveling toolkit for fixing computers, this is small and light enough to toss in.
Alf33 –
Simple But It Works
Been looking for a combination input (mic)/output (speakers/headphone) USB adapter to use with my laptop to record my vinyl LP’s. This is simple, small and it works. I’ve bought a 3.5mm Y cable designed for this because the new 4 pole 3.5mm jack in newer computers. It didn’t work. Bought a Creative Play 3 external sound card. Sort of worked but not well. Bought another external small sound card from a name brand and it didn’t work either. This is after changing sound settings galore in the computer to get them to work along with any software they came with and none worked correctly, except for this one. Glad I took a chance and bought it!
josephj11 –
Great value for the price. The sound is OK.
My notebook headphone jack is broken from tripping over a headphone cord one time too many. I have two pairs of relatively good headphones. One is corded and the other is Bluetooth, but doesn’t work with the old version of Linux running on my old notebook. It also can use a cord. I got this adapter so i would have a headphone jack again. It works fine in Linux, but activating it in the multimedia settings is a bit annoying. This may be fixed in newer versions of Linux.Once you get it selected, it works fine and the sound is OK. It is definitely less quality than my headphones are capable of, but I use it mostly for watching streams that don’t need high quality audio.Great value for $10.
Terry Alan –
Simple, easy replacement when your computer audio port no longer works properly.
Plugged it into my USB port and then plugged in the speaker and this works without any other action. Very pleased.
Enrique –
Altamente recomendable, graba y transmite el audio en sterero, es de los pocos que hacen eso, solo no subirle tanto a la fuente que recibe el audio para que grabe buena calidad.
Alex Yorke –
I bought this product because I installed Windows 10 directly on my MacBook Pro (mid 2012) without bootcamp (put in the Windows 10 installation CD and just installed it), and so I was missing some audio drivers for my built-in audio jack, speakers, and built-in microphone. I wasn’t able to find any audio drivers after hours and hours of searching. However, I was able to plug this in and I didn’t have to install anything; it just worked and I’m able to get audio through my wired Apple earbuds just fine.The audio quality sounds slightly better than on my iPhone 6S listening to music on Spotify premium (on the highest quality, 320kbps); it’s hard to say if it’s a placebo effect. Occasionally, I got interference when using the standard built-in audio jack on my laptop (crinkly and very quiet popping noises when resuming from sleep mode or not playing music for a long time) but I have not noticed any interference or any strange noises with this at all.However, the built-in mic in my earbuds does not work when plugged into this device, but the built-in mic does work fine when plugged into my iPhone. I have tried plugging my earbuds into the mic port on this device, but the mic still doesn’t work. I have not tried it with a standalone mic or any non-apple earbuds.I was having some issues with my 1Password password manager when I installed Windows 10 without drivers, and strangely, plugging this in (with my earbuds) and rebooting my computer completely fixed my 1Password issues, as well as some other issues I have had with apps randomly crashing without cause (searching online for hours and hours googling error messages to no avail.) I have absolutely no idea how this device fixed it, but I no longer have apps crashing with strange error messages.The device is a bit wide; it takes up 1/4 of my other USB port on my Amazon Basics USB hub and on my MacBook Pro’s USB slots (which are next to each other.) This makes it a bit inconvenient when plugging in multiple devices.
Utsav A. –
Does its job
Enrique –
Lo compré porque la integrada de la placa abandonó este mundo. Funcionó en Windows 7 con sólo pincharla en un USB, se instalan los drivers en un par de minutos. Me parece muy útil y muy sencillo. De la calidad del sonido no puedo hablar pues mis altavoces son los del monitor, pero en principio no suena mal.Es más ancha que un usb “normal” de manera que hay que tenerlo en cuenta si los tienes muy juntos en la placa, ya que puede no caber (nada que no solucione un mini hub supongo)
James2228 –
No issues and works as promised. Using it for laptop, one of my laptops has a broken headphone port and looked at something very similar in Maplin it was ridiculously priced like £40?! I also have small microphone attached to my headphones and I plan to do some live streaming and vlogging, the microphone port comes in useful because I currently don’t have a job so I can’t afford a Shure SM58 which would be my preferred but again, useful to be able to listen to music and make vlogs on a budget or do live stream. I’m using a splitter cable but eventually laptop audio port will break pulling jack out and putting in over time (a few years) so this is really a failsafe for that happening.I will say it’s a bit too wide, wide enough to cover a second usb port on laptop which is a bit annoying but there are ways round that like you would just get a USB extension cable if you really wanted to and I guess it has to be wide to accommodate headphone and mic ports. I don’t often need both but it’s just nice to have the option availableSetup was easy, first time plugging it in, the PC has to recognize it by installing some files which takes maybe a minute or less then it’s good to go. Sound replication is the same as putting 3.5mm jack into anything, standard quality, no crackling. I’m definitely making the most of it with Spotify Premium and occasional younow broadcastingOverall it’s pretty cheap and cheerful, again good for laptops with a dodgy audio port, no problems, nice extra gadget to add to the collection lol