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Steph, thanks for that, it’s reassuring and“the equipment I have” would include my ears, which have definitely seen better days . And, having achieved a workable setup with the current motherboard sound, I’ll go ahead and build the new PC and go with the on board initially and possibly for ever...

Got back to testing on the old/current PC's on board sound - took your advice set the /Quad settings to medium and got a decent signal from the line in :). I must say it sounds pretty good, I looked up the audio specs for the current MoBo (Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3) and it's Sound Blaster X-Fi...

Thanks for the reply, Re the sound cards, if I go that way, I’d be leaning towards the Soundblaster, didn’t know the details you provided but had read of issues with the Xonar cards. Did a bit of searching and found the onboard audio for the motherboard is ALC 897 which I’m guessing is not the...

Well, I guess I may get forced down the Soundblaster / Xonar route. The thing about all these devices is they give 7.1 surround sound etc and all I want is simple, decent quality stereo! I could live with an external USB device if it was simple - line in and line out, like the Behringer UCA...

Coming back around to this, I found this adapter which is quite cool as it steps the PCI card back away from the rear of the case so you'd have room to connect the cables through the back as per usual. Only possible issue is that the card is not supported - maybe could bend one of the blanking...

Thanks, I'll check that and give it a try, would still be lacking the loopback part though.

Yeah, mine's working fine on Win 10, I may gamble AU$30 odd on one of those PCIE to PCI adapters and try it out on the current PC before going with the new build, not much wasted if I run into issues and - everything perfect as it is now if it works.

Had a bit of a play around, plugging the Quad preamp into the onboard sound sockets on the current (H170 MoBo) PC. Line out was fine, good signal to the Quad but both Line in and Mic very weak inputs, I have the Quad record outputs set to "High" which is 100mV, 5K ohms which was perfect for the...

Motu is outside my budget, I can get a Scarlett 3rd Gen for about AU$130 Good to know, thanks

I had thought of that solution but it would be a lot of fiddling about and, as you say, may not work under W11.

The most expensive Xonar I can find is the AE at AU$102.

4 volt would be OK, the Quad preamp has 3 settings for "Tape In": High: 1V - 10V Medium: 400mV - 4V Low: 100mV - 1V Xonar PCIE card could be an option, it's an Asus motherboard and I'm all set up for a card, I would need to do some re-cabling for a USB external one. I can see a Xonar SE for...

That is something to consider, it's working fine in Windows 10 though.

Thanks for the advice guys, started me down quite the rabbit hole! I'm probably looking in the AU$100-$200 price bracket, preferably the low end of that. And, all I want is simple, basic, analogue line in and out device without other Mic/Guitar/Level adjustments etc. I think that a PCIE card...

Hi, I'm new here, hope someone can help. Background is, I've been using an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card for ages, in 2 previous PCs and very happy with it BUT the new PC I'm building does not have PCI slots. I looked into PCIE to PCI converters but apart from being a bit pricey, they are...