Despite the voluminous disadvantages section, I still recommend this sound card if you are only going to use it to provide phantom power to your condenser microphone, as I did. Different pros: Feedback from the position of an amateur: phantom power works, the sound does not seem to spoil Cons below: The output from the sound card driver is a stereo signal, which is composed as follows: the sound from the first line goes to the left channel, this is very inconvenient, and I only use a microphone in the first line with a sound card, and in some applications I have to dance with a tambourine to make sure that I can be heard not only in the left earpiece