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SteelSeries Siberia USB Soundcard

24 Nov, 2009, 8:58 am IST | by Siddharth Bhatia |

This specialist Gaming brand has made a fresh entrance to our shores, and sent us a few products straight up for review. One of them is a USB soundcard, especially meant for, you guessed it, gaming. In today’s’ scenario where gaming audio and background scores are reaching gutwrenching levels in terms of “awesomeness”, the enthusiast will still opt for a separate soundcard over  the onboard decoding offered these days. The Steel Series Siberia USB soundcard is aimed at those enthusiasts, so let’s load it up and check it out.

Design and Features
The body of the model is just like any USB flash drive or pen drive, a compact little dongle shaped rectangle with a rounded top edge. The color we received was pure milky white, encased in a hard plastic material. Topside has all the buttons, which actually aren’t too many- there is a horizontally arranged volume plus and minus ones, and a larger mute button on top, with a symmetrical mirror image of mic on button on the bottom half. These are push buttons with quite a hard tactile feel, one needs to actually press with force to get anything done. This might loosen up after prolonged use.

The USB soundcard supports the following systems: Win XP/Vista/Win 2000/Win 98/Win ME. The USB sound card is actually not compatible with Mac. It has a mini USB out in the front rounded edge, and also a wire for the connection to regular USB 2.0 slot is provided. Then we have an EP in for Mic input, and a line out for headset or speaker connection. This line out also doubles as SPDIF out for digital audio out, upto 48 Khz. The model also features a virtual 7.1 surround sound, plus an EQ with storable presets for later use in some other PC. This is useful for gamers who play mostly in 3rd party LAN environments.

Tags: SteelSeries Siberia USB soundcard , USB soundcard , SteelSeries , Siberia

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