> It looks like these start at $250? I'd expect them to work well. Price inflated, like the price of nearly everything. I paid mine 150 EUR back in the days (

> It looks like these start at $250? I'd expect them to work well. Price inflated, like the price of nearly everything. I paid mine 150 EUR back in the days (still not cheap but not either the 4 digits high-end audiophile stuff). The thing is: you want thing to work fine from Linux's side and in my experience USB Audio on Linux just works. I'm sure there are other brands/models at reasonable price points.