Turtle Beach Voyetra TBS-1120-01 | List Price: $43.44
Discount Price: $25.55
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Brand: Turtle Beach
Binding: Electronics
Features: - About the size of a pack of gum - perfect for portable use!
- Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Headphone and 5.1 Virtual Xear multi-speaker simulators for creating 3D surround effects
- Wide variety of digital ambiance settings for simulating concert hall effects
- Multi-band equalizer with user-defined presets for adjusting tone
- Powered by the USB bus - no external power needed!
Great Buy [Posted on 2008-08-16]
Excellent product. Great price. My laptop's integrated sound died, replaced it with this - noticeable difference in sound quality
Good for Optical Out [Posted on 2008-09-30]
I wanted this USB card as a cheap way to get optical out from my PC to my Home Theater system.
It works flawlessly with VLC player and High Definition movies with Dolby@640kbps and DTS @1.5Mbps audio. For this, you just have to:
1) Click on the Palm icon on the systray > Control Panel > SPDIF.
2) On VLC, Preferences > Audio > Use SPDIF and Output type > Win32 WaveOut extension output.
It won't give you 5.1 sound via SPDIF for your games (as it doesn't have Dolby Digital Live encoding), but if you're a fan of HTPCs and don't care about lossless audio, it's all you need.
does NOT re-sample to 48k! spdif works great, analog works great [Posted on 2008-10-23]
fwiw, I've just verified that this devices DOES NOT RESAMPLE audio to 48k (from cd 44.1k). most creative brand products do but this one is made by c-media and that company's chips generally do NOT do playback *forced*resampling*.
I have a hardware device that shows the actual bitrate on the toslink cable and when I play ripped cd's it shows 44.1 and when I play dvd's it shows 48k (all what you'd expect and want).
analog out is also quite good. I'm feeding an external amp (pimeta DIY, highly recommended btw) and hd580 phones. this has a pretty decent DAC and line-out stage (the usb dongle thing). it really isn't half bad; low noise and low distortion. again, you should use an external portable amp and let this dongle be a line-out (not phones-out) device. or, better yet, takes its spdif out and drive an external dac and then go to some amp and phones.
Works with Linux! Limited options [Posted on 2008-10-28]
This product saved me from spending $100 on a "Soundbridge" networked audio player. Instead, I have this plugged into a Linksus NSLU2 with MPD (Music Player Daemon) running so that I can play music (local or streamed) right off the NSLU2. I had virtually no problem installing this device and it was recognized immediately under Debian. The sound quality is great too as I'm using an optical (TOSlink) cable to hook it up to my z5500s. So now I can remotely play music wirelessly from my laptop!
The only limitations: there's only a single optical output (there is a converter to go to 3.5mm) but there are no other outputs or inputs at least for a mic input. Would have been nice, but for what I'm using it for, I don't need the other stuff.
Use caution the first time. [Posted on 2008-12-01]
The good news is that the tiny USB Turtle Beach Voyetra Sound card and its software work fine with my laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. The bad news is that I was hoping it would also work on my Mac Mini running OS X and on my portable running Linux but it doesn't. It does what it says it will do but I was hoping for more. The manufacturer never promised that they had hired a Linux or Mac programmer but I was hoping they had.
Caution: Do NOT use headphones the first time you plug it in. I seldom read instructions until after a disaster and this little sound card was set at maximum volume at the factory. Fortunately I had it plugged in to a stereo system and not directly to my ears. I only rattled a few windows.
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