No drivers are required on Windows 10 or Macs. It’s hard to see how it could be easier to set up a sound card. Setting up the EPOS GSX 300 External USB Sound Card In addition to the black unit, there’s a white “Snow Edition”. And that the recommended headphone impedance is 25 to 75 ohms. All it says is that 24-bit, 96kHz sampling is supported, along with 16-bit, 48kHz in 7.1 channels “with EPOS Gaming Suite”.
The GSX 300 External USB Sound Card is fairly light on for formal specifications. The unit is powered via the USB connection, so there’s no wall wart.
On the microphone side, you can control noise cancellation, set a noise gate and set the character of voice to standard, “warm” or “clear”. You can switch between straight two-channel playback and simulated 7.1 channels. Using the EPOS Gaming Suite software on your computer, you can adjust the EQ of the output and input both. On the front is a large level control with an illuminated ring around it and one single control button. You plug this into a computer with the supplied cable, the other end of which has a standard USB Type-A plug. Also on the back is a Micro-B USB socket. Or, of course, the two of them together for a gaming headset. On the back are two 3.5mm sockets, one for a microphone and one for headphones. You plug it into a USB port on your computer and it will become a DAC and ADC – Digital to Analogue converter and Analogue to Digital converter. The GSX 300 External USB Sound Card is a neat little device, less than 100mm on its longest dimension. If you see EPOS GSX 300 at points in this review, please read it as EPOS|Sennheiser GSX 300.Ībout the GSX 300 External USB Sound Card Determined to keep things confusing, it seems that even though EPOS is an independent business, at least some products are to be referred to as EPOS|Sennheiser. Some gaming product lines that were Sennheiser are now EPOS. It turns out that EPOS and Sennheiser are owned by another entity, Demant A/S, and operate independently. About: EPOS is owned by Sennheiser, a German company famous in the field of both headphones and microphones… something.From: Legitimate retailers and a direct from EPOS.
Manual and fact sheets towards bottom of page here.Review: EPOS|Sennheiser GSX 300 External USB Sound Card And an improvement in sound quality is most certainly something most computers can benefit from. It is a little device, intended to improve on your computer’s audio performance. The EPOS|Sennheiser GSX 300 External USB Sound Card is from the new EPOS gaming brand.