Reddit mentions of Creative Labs Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

You're looking for a USB DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter), also called an external soundcard, or some combination of those.

Ones that are a desktop "box" rather than a large dongle tend to be more expensive, however here's one from Asus that a quick Amazon search turned up. Creative is also a name worth looking out for, there's this one and this smaller one There are also higher end ones more suitable if you're doing music or video production, which have high-quality inputs for microphones and instruments.

Don't worry if you find ones that take a 6.25mm (1/4") headphone cable as you can get converters easily. You can certainly get more expensive.

Edit: The Razer box probably does some simulated surround sound processing, I believe the Asus and Creative products should have simulated surround sound (and probably do a better job of it) in addition to enough speaker outputs to have true surround sound. Simulated surround isn't for everyone, and can be turned off.
Worth mentioning is the Sennheiser GSX 1000, which got a great review from HardwareCanucks, especially the simulated surround sound. Very expensive though.

TL;DR
It's a type of USB Soundcard, the Razer one has the wires fixed in. Only some of them are boxes with volume controls on them, so shop around.

I just found this external usn sound card from creative: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00F8VB0IW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1

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Will something like this increase my sound quality regardless of what speakers I am using?

Yes, seen those, the build quality is suspect.

I may end up with something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Performance-Headphone-Integrated-Microphone/dp/B00F8VB0IW

Although I don't need the soundcard part of it.

Will this benefit and work well along side Hyper X Cloud 2s?

What about this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Performance-Headphone-Integrated-Microphone/dp/B00F8VB0IW ?

Didn't get an answer last time I posted hopefully more luck this time.

Budget: Max 150 - 200 (Euro)

Looking for a DAC/AMP with mic input, I have Philips X2 headphones with ModMic but the modmic is super quite, have to boost mic gain so people can hear me which in turn make the mic sound pretty bad. Seems to be a problem with my Motherboard's audio, a lot of other people with Realtek audio have the same problem.

Source: Desktop

What I have been looking at:

At the moment leaning towards Creative BlasterX G5 or Creative Sound Blaster Omni haven't really seen any options outside of Sound Blaster for DACs with mic input.

Or maybe a simple cheap mic to usb sound adapter is all I need?


I have read the Philips X2 don't benefit too much for a DAC or Amp. Anyone who has run into similar problems with their ModMic could you let me know how you solved it, thanks.

>Sound Blaster Omni Surround

Is it this one?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Performance-Headphone-Integrated-Microphone/dp/B00F8VB0IW/