Customer Ratings & Reviews

I like to use some pretty nice headphones and bought this for the added customization of sound (better audio software) - Installed the sound card and hooked up the included amp directly into the designated ports of the sound card- then plugged my headphones into the 3.5mm jack on the amp. (Of course installed Drivers and included software and restarted system, ensured all drivers were up to date) Listened to about 30 secs into a song and found the sound was HEAVILY distorted (to a point you cant listen to music) - Read online about people with similar problems and found a person with nearly identical specs to my computer (Asus P8Z77 motherboard being the main) and he described it EXACTLY like my problem. His solution was to move the chassis sound cable directly into the sound card (it has a spot for this) - I tried this and moved the amp to the front panel inputs instead; problem seemed to be a tad better but for most part still not functional, moved my headphones directly into the front panel instead of amp; works perfectly. So seems my problem lies with the AMP which was for the most part why I bought it- I didn't notice much difference in the sound quality when I bypassed the amp so I'll take it back and stick with my motherboard sound.