Hi everyone,

I like to get an advise and input from all here regarding sound card. I came to conclusions that my motherboard built in sound chipset no longer working. Already reinstall the driver and also change from windows 7 to Windows 10. Recently i bought the USB sound adapter and sound quality not really good as per built in chipset.

May I know what is sound card or any usb sound device that can produce a similar sound quality like realtek? I'm not willing to invest on creative/xonar sound card. It overkill to my ears. Please suggest what an option I have.

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the onboard realtek chip is one the worse sound that i have heard.. any pci sound sound performs better in term of sound quality or you can also consider USB DAC and it will be easier to state out your budget also.. so we can advise accordingly..

Any USB sound card.

first time hear people praise onboard soundchip haha
you can get a real usb to DAC and discover a whole new world

any cheap burbrown one will do

https://www.lazada.com.my/products/pcm2704-...3030922707.html

Yeah, Realtek sound is crap. Get something better. Using Sound BlasterX AE-5 here.

I wonder do you use the features of the sound card like EAX/CMSS-3D

Too bad gaming audio has regressed over the years due to Creative suing Aureal which caused the demise of 3D Audio on PCs

Yes realtek built in ia not the best but acceptable from my point of view. However the usb adapter even worse. My budget 100+ still okay. If more than that i just leave it or replace motherboard instead.

I have a look on it but i need to figure out how that thing connect and work. Never use that before.

I have an experience with sound blaster card before but very old one. It use Isa slot in year 1999. I know the different. But current model of sound blaster is really out of my reach.

usb plug to pc, there is optical out and coax out. ignore.
there is a 3.5mm jack. use that. there is also buttons for volume up and down.
your pc side will show as soundcard.

as bonus, you can also plug into your phone usb.

No more CMSS-3D. Everything on Sound Blaster Command now.

Can I know which USB sound adapter did you get? You check the DAC AMP recommend section in the forum. This guy got a SMSL M3 for RM200 in Lazada if you’re interested.

The Realtek AC1220 is quite nice, better than my external USB Asus Xonar U3 and similar to Xonar U7.

The older Realtek AC8xx series on budget board isn’t that great.

Thank you guys. I bought this Plextone. Maybe i need to figure out how much i must tune the volume in pc and the adapter.

This post has been edited by capoi: Jul 3 2020, 08:05 PM

According to customers review the 7.1 virtualization sound bad, perhaps you can try stereo mode?

Didn't wait 7.7? Cheaper by few ringgit.

Anyway, you want something that sound good with volume knob, can be sound card / DAC for your PC but also can be DAC for your phone and also can be standalone music player, and it have internal battery so it can be portable? All this thing yet it cost just RM100-ish. Search for Zishan Z2 at lazada/shopee/aliexpress. It even have EQ if you're into that sort of thing. And when you level up into tinkering you can even change it's op-amp such as to MUSES02.

I will have a look. My purpose is to make my pc have a sound. I found Creative sound card at Lazada price around RM175. If unknown pci sound card model like C media good enough, im okay with it.

How about this model Shopee?

This post has been edited by capoi: Jul 3 2020, 10:02 PM

this kind of usb dac not usb adapter.. dont buy those cheap usb adapter.. it makes no different with realtek maybe even worse.. what you expect from a RM20 usb stick

i am using fiio for my sound processing but when i plug back the speaker to onboard sound.. i can feel immediate different between the audio quality..

you got the budget to replace motherboard but after you replace the motherboard your processor spoil how? u gonna spend again to repair or you are going to replace the whole set?.. why not spend it on a decent usb dac or sound card which u can carry from this desktop to another and maybe even use it on laptop... its a better investment still

dont spend on those fancy virtual multi channel sound processing... you can focus on decent 2 channel audio processor if you are not into gaming/you are not having multiple channel speakers set

I doubt you can tell the difference between on board sound and high end PCIE sound card, you need very good pair of headphone plus golden ears.
typical user posses neither lol

the thing you miss from usb sound card are probably audio equalizer or some other special audio FX.

Don't know what brand or chipset, or whether it will have driver support for it. Not something that I will recommend.

With RM100 budget you're very limited of choice for well known great product.