I got one for 3 dollars on Ibiao dot com with FREE shipping and surprise, surprise, it did not work. And YES, it was the exact same as the one in the photo above.

A “real” one can be found for not too much more money and will work far better.

Try Griffin’s iMic.
Rating: 1 / 5

i eagerly bought this item because my audio output pin had some loose contact. But to all my expectation, its a shear waste of money. This “Made is china” has not support, manual, contact information and nothing. Please don’t buy this.
Rating: 1 / 5

I purchased this item to convert my expensive Sony headphones to USB.

First of all, by default, the left and right stereo channels are REVERSED. The only way to change this is to manually change where the speakers are “virtually located” in the accompanying software. It was then that I knew I had purchased a piece of junk . You can only do this in the emulated “5.1 Stereo Surround Sound” mode. Unfortunately –

Second, THE 5.1 STEREO SURROUND SOUND MODE DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY. It causes everything to come out very “tinny”, as if you were trying to run your sound through a Sega Genesis or something. Terrible.

Third, the volume defaults to INCREDIBLY loud! I am glad that I had not put on my headphones yet when I started playing sound, because without exaggeration I honestly believe that it would have caused permanent damage to my hearing. The only way around THAT is to really mess with Windows Volume Control and turn everything down to the absolute minimum. And by everything, I mean the Wave volume, the Synth volume, AND the main volume. What on Earth? Why did they do this?

Fourth (Yes, there’s more!), there is a barely audible but extremely annoying “click” sound out of the right (er, excuse me, left?) speaker. Constantly. It clicks about once per second. Argh.

Fifth, this may just be my personal set-up, but if you try to increase the main volume at ALL, there is a very audible buzzing sound behind the music.

Lastly, for some reason this thing is not properly compatible with the volume buttons on my keyboard. Instead of raising the volume by one bar, it raises it by two. And because of the aforementioned needlessly loud default sound setting, two bars makes a HUGE difference in volume.

This thing is unusable and useless. If I can’t get my money back, I will be extremely sad.

In conclusion, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. The previous review leads me to believe it for whatever reason operates properly on a Mac, but on my Sony VAIO Desktop PC, it’s useless.

I wouldn’t have taken this if it were offered to me for free.

STAY AWAY. This is NOT the solution you’re looking for.
Rating: 1 / 5