The box acts in exterior very valuable, although the case is made of lightweight plastic. Of course you have the box hold if you connect headphones or Micro - that goes without saying in 6.35mm jack plugs by itself it ultimately is not about a kilo amplifier.. The here often criticism of the size of the volume rotary switch I can not confirm - me it seems big enough, and you also do not rotate continuously around it, if the device attached to a hi-fi system.
I have completely dispensed with software installation (and THX Media Toolbox) because I want to run any software sound manipulation and use its own software for all tasks. The first time you connect Windows XP to automatically install the Microsoft driver. It is advisable to have to update the driver online, since only then is ready recording functionality correctly. Alternatively, you can also install the included Creative driver. The installation routine allows it, just select this driver and no other software.
I use among other things, a fairly betagtes notebook that in no way the hardware requirements of Creative fulfilled (1.5GHz Pentium, 768MB RAM, USB 1.1). The card also works so smoothly with no dropouts, noise or crackling.
I'm very satisfied. Therefore, 5 points for the pure audio performance with good price-performance ratio for a no-frills device.
Addendum: Meanwhile, the same device has a move to a new laptop with Windows 7 participated with upgrading to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 without any problems. Furthermore recommendation!
