The sound card does have a bearing on the quality of the signal as it has to perform the analogue to digital conversion in order to create the wav file. Fortunately most cards do this to a good standard. What you should look for however is the amount of noise and pickup from the other electronics inside the PC case. I used to have a SoundBlaster AWE64 which produced large amounts of noise and made good recordings impossible. I swapped it for either a PCI64 or PCI128 (can't remember which) which greatly improved things. I've made some very nice recordings with the card and subsequently burnt them to CD. Try making a recording as a test and listen carefully during any silent sections. Any noise is going to be created primarily by the line input stage of the card rather than the KN6500.

Richard.

[This message has been edited by Richard Bools (edited 10-27-2003).]