![]() Impressed by the sound quality, I searched for second, but wasn’t able to find a supplier. In 2012, they rebranded the chip to the SB-Axx1™ chip. It’s powered by a Creative’s Sound Core3D chip–a quad-core DSP that also integrates a USB Digital Audio Converter (DAC), an Analog Digital Converter (ADC), a separate 600-ohm Headphone Amp, a digital microphone interface, S/PDIF inputs and outputs and General Purpose Inputs and Outputs (GPIO). ![]() It was a good buy at $40 CAD (many stores were liquidating them at the time). I first bought the Sound Blaster Recon3D USB (SB1300). It was frustrating enough for me to just dump the modified onboard sound kexts and look for a properly supported USB sound card. One thing that has always troubled me is that sound would be continually borked. I am part of a small community of people who build and maintain Hackintoshes (I’ve been doing it since the early versions of Boot-321). I wanted to capture some thoughts as there isn’t much written about these cards. They are all part of the Sound Blaster line of sound cards from Creative. I’ve bought 3 from the same manufacturer. I am a bit nuts about external USB sound card / DAC /AMP combos. ![]() : Added a pretty big caveat to the Omni Surround. Update : I updated some thoughts below on sound quality. USB Sound Cards: Omni Surround Pro 5.1 vs. ![]()
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