[TBman]

Originally Posted by Joseph Hanna

Naw Barry that’s simply not the case. An interface (among others things) is about the quality of the conversion. Analog to digital conversion going in, and equally as important, digital to analog conversion going out. If one buy an interface to improve the quality of A/D and D/A but chooses to ignore the D/A stage the whole process is compromised. As I mention I’d never use anything Windows has to offer by way of sound. That’s clearly not their gig

No sense in buying an interface only to degrade things (and severely so) at the output stage. I’d refer back to Fran’s question (which no one responded to) earlier in the thread. There really does seem to be some fundamental misconceptions goin on here and we’d do well (for all who might be new here) to clear up

Nah, no good. Keep the speakers separate.