Bill,
A couple of years ago I owned the Audiphile 2496. Great, inexpensive, easy to use, bright sounding device.... no noise at all.

I still don't know why it happened, but one day I noticed dropouts and clicks in my recordings. Even using MS mediaplayer!
While trying to get rid of this problem I upgraded to AP192... same problem
complete system (factory) restore... same problem.

Finally I purchased the Hammerfall DSP9632 and all is working fine again.... superb!

[This message has been edited by kla4 (edited 09-27-2008).]