DAC That supports Mic and Headphones

[BENDOWANDS]

Hi there.

Let me explain my setup so you know what I need, I am a livestreamer and YouTube and have both a studio mic and an antlion modmic, I use the modmic for game and Skype chat, while I use the studio mic for the livestream. (yes I could just mute myself on Skype and in-game, but it's just easier to not have to mess with hotkeys and just use the mute slider on the mic)

Now I bought a pair of HyperX Cloud II's for gaming, but I upgraded to HD 598s and a modmic. I'm still using the HyperX Dongle

but it sits on my desk and looks bad, I've seen people mount DACs to their desk, and I have mounted my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 under my desk, I want to do the same for my HyperX Dongle, but it just doesn't look good, so I'm looking for a DAC with a mic input(it can be a separate jack or share the jack with the headphones) And something that looks kind of like this one.

My price range is $0-$40
It doesn't need to amplify it(would be nice though)
It preferably has a volume knob for at least the headphones


If there is nothing that is what I'm looking for I can buy a normal DAC and an 3.5mm jack extension to go to my computer and mount both under my desk


Thanks
Ben

 

[Rocky Bennett]

You will never the item that you described because it does not exist. By their very nature, a DAC is a digital to analog converter where the flow of information will always flow from digital through the convert and become an analog signal. That is the only thing that a DAC can do unless it also has a builting pre-am and amp to power up some headphones.

On the other hand an ADC is an analog to digital converter that is designed to convert an analog input signal to a digital output stream. The input can be a mic that has its signal converted to digital, but that is what an ADC does.

You might need a combination DAC & ADC although I have never seen one. That is the item that should Google.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I did a lot of Googling and I found this, I don't know if it will help;

https/www.massdrop.com/buy/creative-sound-blaster-x7-amp-dac-combo?mode=guest_open