DIGIFLEX External Sound Card USB 6 Channel 5.1 Audio

Title : DIGIFLEX External Sound Card USB 6 Channel 5.1 Audio
ASIN : B003TO3KHY
Description : This external sound card offers a quality solution for upgrading you PC or laptop audio.

This device supports 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz and 48 KHz sampling rate in digital and analog recording, and in digital/analog audio playback.

In digital playback mode, it receives an audio stream from the PC via a USB interface and transmits audio data according to AESEBU, IEC60958, SPDIF consumer interface standards.

System Requirements: Win98/2000/XP/7.

Features :

• External 6 channel (5.1) sound card.
• Easy to install
• Inputs: SPDIF in, Line in, Mic in.
• Outputs: SPDIF out, Front out, Rear out, Cen/Bass out
• Supports 32KHz, 44.1KHz and 48KHz sampling rate in digital and analog recording.

List Price : £12.75
Price : £12.75

category: Internal Sound Cards
brand: Digiflex
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 3.7
Review : Good product, setup could be made much easier
I purchased this Sound Card in order to improve the quality of recordings made transferring LPs via a Hi-Fi Amplifier onto MP3 music on the PC. My internal sound card has some noise on one channel. Seemed like good value and unlike some of the other external sound cards this had a Line-In socket rather than just a Mic (which will be mono in many cases). I won't be using the 5.1 Audio yet but this looks like a good bonus.

Item was smaller than I expected, about the size of a pack of cards, and nicely finished with a smart metal case. It arrived promptly, with a mini-CD and no documentation. When I plugged it into the PC (running XP) Windows auto-installed a driver ("USB Sound Card"). Trying to update this off the supplied CD failed ("no drivers found" message). I could not get sound into the PC despite trying all the available settings.

On further investigation, the CD has several directories with zipped .rar files in them. I didn't have a way of unzipping them,...