Hi, these days I really was amazed, because while discussing the new Virus TI in the Access mailing list, I was told that the Virus TI will do audio over a 1.1 USB bus. Is it really true that USB 1.1 can do audio, and if so, are there any USB soundcards out there which one could recommend? I did a search in the archives of this list, and found a recommendation of Clemens Ladisch that the Edirol UA-30 is working well. Unfortunately, it seems that it is discontinued. So, are there any further devices one of you uses successfully? I ask because I have a Dell Inspiron notebook and the audio connection is simply lousy; if there were any USB 1.1 soundcard which will work well on my Gentoo box, I guess I'd immediately buy one! I put some system specs below. Lets see what I'm looking for in detail: * Audio in and out, both stereo * Mic in * Headphones out (not needed necessarily) * MIDI not necessarily required because I already use an Edirol UM-1S Furthermore, what would you like to recommend as plugs? What are the (dis)advantages between cinch and 3.5mm plugs? Thanks a lot for your thoughts, ce uname -a Linux Grandevitesse 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 #5 SMP Sat Oct 9 23:31:33 CEST 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14:31:44 2004 UTC). Compiled on Oct 9 2004 for kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 (SMP).