Andrea Electronics C1-1021450-1 Model USB-SA-1 High Fidelity External Digital Sound Card with Noise Reduction Technology

As a court reporter in state court in Louisiana, myself and other reporters have used these Andreas for recording our proceedings. Unfortunately mine and other reporters’ Andreas have failed within months of purchase

I used this with my cell phone to record music. This shows me how bad the ADC on cell phones are. The sound quality was improved ten fold.

The original didnt have the little cord and nothing else would fit beside it in the second USB port, so I like this one much better! For the price, its a great USB sound card.

Very satisfied over the years with the Andrea USB pod for voice recognition (Dragon)

I found the latency to be much higher than other options for speech recognition use. The audio was very quiet however.

I use mine with a lavaliere microphone that has a 3.5mm mini-plug, to record training videos onto my laptop for work. I have tried similar devices including those by Sabrent (noisiest, and does not work at all on some laptops), Turtle Beach (worked on my older laptops, useless on new ones), Audio-Technica (an improvement, but still noisy) and Plantronics (OK). This one is the best, because of the noise reduction when recording -- theres still some hiss, but so little that its easily removed in Audacity or just ignored. My son also has one, which he uses as a headphone amplifier and it also works better with headphones than any similar device we have tried. So, between us we have found this the best choice for both sound in, and sound out, where USB is the best available interface but your listening or recording device has a standard mini-plug. Well worth the few extra dollars.

I had the device plugged into my mac book for less than 60 seconds and an error came up saying that a USB device was drawing too much power and my laptop had shut it off. I unplugged the device and it was too hot to even touch. After letting it cool I tried it again and it was dead, the USB port still works fine but the device is done. It was scary to me how hot it got and how quickly it got there. Not sure why this happened but it is very unsettling. I bought this one for the reviews but I guess I got the one.

I bought this to facilitate hot-swapping my laptop computer... all my peripherals are plugged into a USB hub, so that docking/undocking involves only the HDMI video cable, the USB cord to the USB hub, and the power supply. For this purpose, it does the job. I cannot tell any difference in quality between this and the audio card built into the computer. I do note one downside. I dont know whether its a specific flaw in this product, or is endemic to USB sound cards. When theres no particular load on the computer, it runs fine; but if I put any significant demands on the computer, it will skip and sputter. This is not an issue with the speed of my system (Intel Core i7) or USB (3.0), but I suspect is an inherent weakness in using a USB sound card.

Works excellent with VXI Tria USB headset. A must have for better microphone accuracy.

Compré 13 unidades de este producto que dice que es de ANDREA ELECTRONICS y recibí un producto que externamente es idéntico pero es de otro fabricante ANDREA COMUNICATIONS. Que puedo hacer? No son 100% compatibles pues el que recibí no funciona con RASPBERRY PI.