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@Julian Krause, going through his data should yield some good candidates for poor performers.
Notably, the Presonus Audiobox USB 96 and its lousy mic input EIN (and seemingly generally dirty virtual ground) - you definitely don't want to be using this with an SM7B unless the denoiser is your favorite plugin. I'd guess the predecessor minus 96 is going to have much the same issues.
Or the super cheap Behringer UM2 with enough dynamic range for spoken word but little more and very limited maximum input level... like -5 dBu or something? Or the somewhat better UMC22 if you can't find one. (These kinds of interfaces based around 20-year-old single-chip USB codecs actually are not bad products per se - combine them with an XM8500 dynamic mic or a decent inexpensive condenser and a cheap and cheerful boom arm, and you have a competent budget podcasting rig with decent flexibility that should be more than adequate for starting out. Just don't expect to be able to get an undistorted recording of SHOUTING into a condenser mic on the hotter side, or to be able to record the whispers in the room at the same time as singing at the top of your lungs.)
Headphone outputs can be bad in all kinds of ways... some have high output impedance (e.g. Steinberg everything) so impedance-critical loads like multi-driver BA IEMs will sound off, while on others the same may be bothered by permanent hiss.
Then there's the ones with wimpy output stages that can't drive low-impedance cans on the insensitive side (e.g. lots of planars) to higher levels without undue distortion... the Achilles heel of 3rd gen Focusrite Scarletts, for example. (It's a "barefoot" NJM8065 - which is a warmed-up NJM4565 - at near-zero output impedance on +/-5 V. That part was never really intended to be a headphone driver, and it shows.)
Maximum output levels tend to be at least in onboard sound terrain, but that can already get fairly tight if insensitive 600 ohm cans are your thing.
At least you'll rarely get more than one or two of these issues so you can generally pick some headphones that'll work OK.
