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The item has a compact USB plug with a cable connecting to the sound card. This eliminates the danger of breaking off the USB device when using it on my laptop computer. The sound card has a built-in equalizer switch which works fairly well for adjusting the audio tone. The volume control also works great and the sound card has ample volume for headphone listening. Great little device.

So being a custom gaming desktop user for years, when I decided to purchase my first gaming laptop (Alienware M17) I just didn't like the built-in sound chip though it is a good one, I've just never been a fan of onboard sound chips. Since I have always used Creative sound cards in my custom gaming desktops I decided to give this external DAC a try. Man, was this ever the right choice! This external sound card is simply perfect. Sounds great no matter if you're playing a game, listening to music, or watching a video. This is about the size of a small external drive. Fits in your pocket, laptop bag, backpack with ease. Worked flawlessly soon as I connected it to the laptop. The only thing I had to do after connecting this up was download the Connect 2 software, set up the sound profiles I wanted for music, gaming, etc and I was off and running. Love this thing it was the smartest purchase for achieving great sound on my laptop. It's loud with my desktop speakers (Klipsch) and very clean and clear when playing music. The scout mode for gaming is great which I use all the time when playing FPS games. My sound profiles are correctly set after each cold boot so haven't experienced any issues in that department like others have reported and it fires up properly each time I have cold started my laptop. I have even changed the USB port I have this plugged into with no issues of it connecting or having the right sound profile selected.

- Clarity is REALLY good, I'm impressed at what I'm hearing in sound that I wasn't before. I really thought that my onboard was fine, until I got this as a "why not" gift for myself. I figured that it'd at least give me a physical switch to turn up and down music, it does ALOT more than that. - I'm impressed at how much more distinct sounds are. Listening even to shows on youtube, or streamed online, I can hear sounds far more separately, and clearly. This really adds to music especially. - Fixed a problem I was having where my audio channels on my headset were backwards (My right audio came out my left, and vice versa), it seems to be common online, and this is a fairly expensive way to fix it, but it did fix it.

Got this because it's compatible with Windows 98 Upon boot, Win 98 detected it, it installed a PCE-E to PCI bridge chip driver. I had to install the driver manually after, but that's just Windows 98 being bad.