UGREEN 80864 USB 2.0 Type-A To 3.5mm External Sound Card Adapter

I used this one exclusively with Fedora. You have to manually set it to 24bit/96KHz as it defaults to 16bit/48KHz (not a fault of the device). I use this to drive studio monitors/speakers and only hear a tiny amount of self-noise/electrical noise if I turn their amps above 90% volume. So my studio's are sitting at 90% (which is great) and then I control volume in the OS as usual.

My use case is slightly different though: I have a usb kvm hub that connects to two different PC's. In this hub, I plug two other hubs that are integrated in my screens. These screen can carry audio via hdmi/usb-c but the quality is bad & low signals and I cannot change the sample rates. So I just plug this device into one of my monitors usb ports (instead of the using native screen jack) and then I can switch my audio, mic, keyboard, mouse with one button between the two computers. It switches flawlessly and the switch over doesn't create any audio pops/crackles like the hdmi/usb-c ones do. When the screens and hubs are powered off, no electrical noise bleeds into the speakers either (where with the screens it can happen frequently), so no weird hissing noises while everything is off.

All round super happy with this device. It works on Windows 11 too, no driver install needed. Just bump the quality to 24bit/96KHz too and you are good to go! I'm considering getting another one for my headphones as it has better specs & frequencies than the one built into my laptop and gpu.

Does exactly as described.
excellent sound quality
paired with a Blackshark V2 x
as i don't wanna plug it into the motherboard as my cause is quiet far from my table.