Bad Soundcard quality

[Anon356]

Hi
I bought a USB soundcard for my recently bought netbook since its onboard soundcard is pretty bad.
The soundcard that I bought is a Ewent EW3751 R1.
I'm testing it on my other laptop now and it's terrible.
The sound is shallow, a bit high pitched and not much bass.
How is it possible that my laptops onboard soundcard is so much better than this external one?
I don't get it. Do I realy have to buy a 100$ soundcard to get normal decent audio quality?
Am I missing something here?

 

Do you guys think that this soundcard (https://www.bol.com/nl/p/creative-soundblaster-play-2-geluidskaart-zwart/9200000029940468/) would provide good/decent audio quality or would I need a more expensive one?

Thanks,
Anon356

[Dackzy]

7 hours ago, Anon356 said:

Hi
I bought a USB soundcard for my recently bought netbook since its onboard soundcard is pretty bad.
The soundcard that I bought is a Ewent EW3751 R1.
I'm testing it on my other laptop now and it's terrible.
The sound is shallow, a bit high pitched and not much bass.
How is it possible that my laptops onboard soundcard is so much better than this external one?
I don't get it. Do I realy have to buy a 100$ soundcard to get normal decent audio quality?
Am I missing something here?

 

Do you guys think that this soundcard (https://www.bol.com/nl/p/creative-soundblaster-play-2-geluidskaart-zwart/9200000029940468/) would provide good/decent audio quality or would I need a more expensive one?

Thanks,
Anon356

that creative USB soundcard is bad and I mean really bad, I own it for my laptop because my laptop has shit audio, but that thing is even worse and on about 90% of them the mic will not work. Do you need mic input? If no get schiit fulla or something else I recommend in my post about amps and dacs in my signature. If yes, I can't help you.

[Guest]

If you need microphone input as well, you could do worse than the Asus DGX.

[Anon356]

Thank you both for your answers.

 

No I don't need mic input. Just normal stereo output.

Dackzy, I've read the article in your signature. And since not all of those are available from where I live. I think I'll go for an Audioquest DragonFly.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/audioquest-dragonfly-black/9200000058165810/?country=BE&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002013-G-22404645884-S-181299932684-9200000058165810

Would this be an OK choice? Would I be able to get normal/decent audio quality with this?

Also, it needs to work with Win10. And I've heard that a lot of USB audio adapters with custom drivers have problems with Win10. If you have any idea if this would be a problem please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Anon356

[Dackzy]

23 minutes ago, Anon356 said:

Thank you both for your answers.

 

No I don't need mic input. Just normal stereo output.

Dackzy, I've read the article in your signature. And since not all of those are available from where I live. I think I'll go for an Audioquest DragonFly.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/audioquest-dragonfly-black/9200000058165810/?country=BE&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002013-G-22404645884-S-181299932684-9200000058165810

Would this be an OK choice? Would I be able to get normal/decent audio quality with this?

Also, it needs to work with Win10. And I've heard that a lot of USB audio adapters with custom drivers have problems with Win10. If you have any idea if this would be a problem please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Anon356

yeah the dragonfly is pretty good.

[Guest]

44 minutes ago, Anon356 said:

Thank you both for your answers.

 

No I don't need mic input. Just normal stereo output.

Dackzy, I've read the article in your signature. And since not all of those are available from where I live. I think I'll go for an Audioquest DragonFly.

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/audioquest-dragonfly-black/9200000058165810/?country=BE&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002013-G-22404645884-S-181299932684-9200000058165810

Would this be an OK choice? Would I be able to get normal/decent audio quality with this?

Also, it needs to work with Win10. And I've heard that a lot of USB audio adapters with custom drivers have problems with Win10. If you have any idea if this would be a problem please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Anon356

 

Somewhat overpriced.

[spwath]

3 hours ago, SSL said:

 

Somewhat overpriced.

Though compared to their cables it's a steal.

[Dackzy]

4 hours ago, SSL said:

 

Somewhat overpriced.

it is not that overpriced and they are often on sale, atleast they are in Denmark.

[Anon356]

I'm sorry for wasting your time guys..
I just tested the cheap USB soundcard, which I said was bad, on my stereo, and the quality is like it should be.

So I'm thinking its probably because of the TRRS connector on my headphones. They probably don't entirely fit in the port.
For my stereo I use a TRS connector and it works perfectly fine.

 

Still , thank you for all your help.