USB Soundcard bad quality

[Anon356]

Hi
I bought a USB soundcard for my recently bought netbook since its onboard soundcard is pretty bad.
The soundcard that I bought is a Ewent EW3751 R1.
I'm testing it on my other laptop now and it's terrible.
The sound is shallow, a bit high pitched and not much bass.
How is it possible that my laptops onboard soundcard is so much better than this external one?
I don't get it. Do I realy have to buy a 100$ soundcard to get normal decent audio quality?
Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Anon356

 

[popatim]

While you dont need to buy a $100 sound card you do need to do research and buy quality products and not some no-name thing that has a total of two reviews (that I could find) a 1 star and a 3 star... doesnt speak very highly of this thing.