Great video, I totally agree and this is coming from someone who has gone down the rabbit hole of expensive dongles buying many over the last 2 years, THX Onyx (£170), HIBY FC4, Apogee groove (£180), HIDIZ , Cayin (the ladder dac one £200), plus Fiio ones, and some more and having just purchased the Creative play3 dongle just for the hell of it cost me £20 on Amazon. Let me tell you this piece of kit (from 2017) can stand toe to toe with all those dongles in terms of sound quality IMHO clear, precise nice soundstage not harsh in ANYWAY great bass and it has a beautiful piece of software called creative control panel that has great functionality in which you can change the gain settings to drive a whole host of headphones it drives my Beyerdynamic DT880s with ease. For £20 its a no brainer , and I had zero expectations of this bit of kit , I do think manufacturers play on the fact that so called audiophiles are prepared to pay big money (like emperor's new clothes syndrome lol)
Hi! Thx for video. My english is not that great and youre so quiet.Please let me know that if i use play4 dac on mobile phone does it support 24-bit / 192kHz even if the mobile not able? The dac has a built in amplification and make output volume louder on every 3,5 devices? I heard that if you update firmware it will make even better did u use the latest one?
Unfortunately even if it did upscale I doubt this would improve the sound. In the end the goal was to get an output from a dongle that was loud enough to drive even modest headphones, and this did manage that goal. I have since found for a little more the creative sound blaster g3 is even better.
Hi I would like to know a small information regarding this Can this sound card replace if the computer shows that there is no audio output device or the internal speakers are damaged?
It acts as a sound card so if the issue on your pc comes from the built-in sound card, then yes it can replace it. However for the built-in speakers it’s another story if they don’t have a jack connection to plug it to the sound card.
Great video, I totally agree and this is coming from someone who has gone down the rabbit hole of expensive dongles buying many over the last 2 years, THX Onyx (£170), HIBY FC4, Apogee groove (£180), HIDIZ , Cayin (the ladder dac one £200), plus Fiio ones, and some more and having just purchased the Creative play3 dongle just for the hell of it cost me £20 on Amazon.
Let me tell you this piece of kit (from 2017) can stand toe to toe with all those dongles in terms of sound quality IMHO clear, precise nice soundstage not harsh in ANYWAY great bass and it has a beautiful piece of software called creative control panel that has great functionality in which you can change the gain settings to drive a whole host of headphones it drives my Beyerdynamic DT880s with ease. For £20 its a no brainer , and I had zero expectations of this bit of kit , I do think manufacturers play on the fact that so called audiophiles are prepared to pay big money (like emperor's new clothes syndrome lol)
Thanks for sharing this, now I know why it was quiet on my phone lol
Hi! Thx for video. My english is not that great and youre so quiet.Please let me know that if i use play4 dac on mobile phone does it support 24-bit / 192kHz even if the mobile not able? The dac has a built in amplification and make output volume louder on every 3,5 devices? I heard that if you update firmware it will make even better did u use the latest one?
Unfortunately even if it did upscale I doubt this would improve the sound. In the end the goal was to get an output from a dongle that was loud enough to drive even modest headphones, and this did manage that goal. I have since found for a little more the creative sound blaster g3 is even better.
Is it plag-and-play compatible with Linux?
Hi
I would like to know a small information regarding this
Can this sound card replace if the computer shows that there is no audio output device or the internal speakers are damaged?
It acts as a sound card so if the issue on your pc comes from the built-in sound card, then yes it can replace it. However for the built-in speakers it’s another story if they don’t have a jack connection to plug it to the sound card.