Portable USB Sound Card

[Vaulty]

Can somebody tell me how they work?
Because 5.1 and 7.1 headphones comes with their own drivers... or does it somehow make my 2.0 headphones work like 5.1 or 7.1 sound

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Pretty much all Stereo Headsets can output Surround Sound; via a sound cards "Virtual Audio" setting. When something like Virtual Surround gets enabled, what this does is ensure all the Surround Channels (like from say 5.1 movie playback) are pushed/down-sampled to be heard even if the Speakers/Headphones are only Stereo. This is very helpful because in many games or movies, when Surround is enabled in playback for those media, Voices may go un-heard because they tend to be on the Center Channel of the original Surround Sound Audio Track.

If the headset is USB, then these use their own Audio Chip + Driver.
If the headset is Analog 3.5mm jack(s) then this uses sound card / onboard audio from the PC (or whatever the device is). USB Audio doesn't really offer anymore feature-wise or quality-wise over onboard audio.

[Vaulty]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Pretty much all Stereo Headsets can output Surround Sound; via a sound cards "Virtual Audio" setting. When something like Virtual Surround gets enabled, what this does is ensure all the Surround Channels (like from say 5.1 movie playback) are pushed/down-sampled to be heard even if the Speakers/Headphones are only Stereo. This is very helpful because in many games or movies, when Surround is enabled in playback for those media, Voices may go un-heard because they tend to be on the Center Channel of the original Surround Sound Audio Track.

If the headset is USB, then these use their own Audio Chip + Driver.
If the headset is Analog 3.5mm jack(s) then this uses sound card / onboard audio from the PC (or whatever the device is). USB Audio doesn't really offer anymore feature-wise or quality-wise over onboard audio.

So if I have 2.0 headset plugged via 3.5mm jacks and use the portable sound card via usb so this would make my 2.0 headset work as 5.1?

Cuz it would be useful in games :P

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just use the onboard audio if you have have analog 3.5mm; what good is the USB sound in that case? No worth buying.

What onboard audio do you have?
If not sure; what is the Desktop Motherboard -or- Laptop model?

[Vaulty]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Just use the onboard audio if you have have analog 3.5mm; what good is the USB sound in that case? No worth buying.

What onboard audio do you have?
If not sure; what is the Desktop Motherboard -or- Laptop model?

It's a laptop Lenovo G50-30
http://support.lenovo.com/pl/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/Lenovo-G-Series-laptops/G50-30-Notebook-Lenovo?tabName=Documentation&linkTrack=Mast:SubNav:Support:Documentation|Documentation&beta=false

Device manager shows in audio controllers that I have Conexant Smart Audio HD..