Thread: Koss USB Dongle

Koss a famous manufacturer of headsets also offers accessories such as USB dongle a sort of mini USB sound card that does not need drivers to operate. Intended for easy use of a headset what is his interest his qualities and his weaknesses?

Koss USB Dongle comes in the form of a USB key. It has a small USB cord that fits into his stomach for transport to an end is through this that we will lead the connector to the PC. At the other extreme there are two mini jack it is an output for headphones and an input for the microphone.

The USB dongle is designed to be used with an analog headset. It has the advantage of being 100% compatible with Windows XP and Mac OS X and needs no drivers to operate. Just plug it in wait for recognition by the OS and go. It regrets the lack of cons solution for OS alternative.

It is based on a C-Media audio chip set type CM-103.Its features are pretty basic. The dongle can reproduce stereo audio at 16 bit / 44.1 and 48 kHz, which corresponds to the bare minimum required for sound on PCs. His mini-jack input for microphone can record in mono 16 bit / 44.1 kHz.

It is therefore not a product intended to make recordings for broadcast but clearly oriented towards online communication with VOIP software like Skype or communication applications for network games such as Roger Wilco or XFire .