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Originally Posted by Five

Yeah, you can have two soundcards. I have four in my main comp
the whole mono-stereo thing I still can't figure out, tho.

Cool. I forgot to note the slight variation I've discovered today in my post above. I suffered the frequency range losses while retaining (I think all of) the stereo split. Also, I just realised, the big fat chunk of mono I noted above was definitely left-channel only - not convinced that this is typical, but it's definitely what happens sometimes.