- USB to 3.5mm Jack Audio Adapter,External Sound Card USB-A to Audio Jack Adapter with Aux Stereo Converter Compatible with Headset,PC Windows,Laptop Mac, Desktops, Linux, PS4 and More Device (Grey)

I have been struggling with a headphone port that was too loose - propping it up a little to keep the connection was a pain. This is a big money saver over getting that port fixed. Perfect USB connection every time.

I purchased this for my new PC which does not have a rear audio port so I needed to use a rear USB port for my speakers. Works perfectly.

works great, my desktop speakers sound good using it

I expected a little better in terms of sound quality from this doohickey... but at least it's plug-and-play. I originally tested on Linux and it seems that the driver's already rolled in the kernel! The first time I used it there, I kept hearing horrible audio drop-outs (I almost returned it). But it seems to work fine now... Then I tested on my 2011 iMac, connecting the output of the adapter to the audio in port on the Mac. I used a 1Hz to 22050Hz sine sweep and was fairly surprised by how shitty the spectrogram looked! In the picture you can clearly see some mildly disgusting noise and frequency "splatter". The treble response isn't spectacular either, as you can see in the second screenshot it starts rounding off at ~16133Hz and dies around 21058Hz. I have not tested the audio-in function of this adapter. All in all, if you only need this for Zoom calls or listening to dictation, it does the job with no setup involved. I wouldn't use it for serious music listening, though.

Works perfect with Linux. Plug and play. I am using this for running Linux on an old Chromebook where the sound card keeps malfunctioning. Fixed it no problem.

The converters have been the worst purchase I have ever made, that says a lot considering this item is not very expensive. Its true you get what you pay for, and i had little patience after trying to resolve the issues these jacks created. Now i want to start by saying that this is not a one off. Both jacks I recieved cause almost identical problems on two computers, a desktop and a laptop. The issues on the laptop were worse by far! When i started working on my desktop first, I noticed that i was losing audio. I couldn't figure it out at first and had to keep restarting my computer until i finally figured out what the problem was. When i set the converter (Tx(number sequence)) as the default speaker, it would kill all my audio. I would run a youtube video for testing purposes, and the audio would drop and cause the video to start buffering. I don't know how those are connected, but here we are, and it happened on my laptop too. I had to reset my desktop every time i was trying to set it as the default speakers, i didn't know this was the issue at the time. I didn't put two and two together until i started rearranging my laptop setup and changed the default audio to the Tx(number sequence) converter using the additional converter. That is when it dawned on me that it was the cause for the same problems i was having on my desktop. Unfortunately, this caused me to undo the errors it caused for about half an hour as i ended up having to do a contra code (up, up, down, down, etc.) trying to get my USB hub working again as it made my M&K unrecognizable after restarts. Little did i know it wasnt just the M&K, but everything connected to my hub was now missing because of this converter. i had to turn off my computer, and once it shut down i had to unplug my hub, restart my laptop, confirm the default audio was not on the converter, plug my hub back in, and then restart my laptop once again. This dumb connector made me lose over an hour of my life on two different days. Needless to say i will be asking for a refund.

This is great, perfect for what I needed it for.. I really appreciated it. It came exactly as scheduled.

This worked great and sounded good. I was setting up a KVM setup between Windows and MacOS machines, I didn't have a way to transfer the speakers so on whim I gave this a shot as an experiment. So the KVM switch transferred a USB hub between the computers, this was plugged into one of the USB ports on the hub, and the speakers were plugged into the this jack. Everything worked great right out of the box, I didn't have to fiddle with anything. I ended up not needed it in the long run because the monitor that was acquired had an audio pass-through from the HDMI so that worked without needing to use up a spot on the USB hub. But I'm impressed that it worked with this pretty jankey setup between two different OSs.