Thanks Kevin, I agree, I will not upgrade unless/until I know my current equipment works. In fact, my production computer for music is older than yours, a Core 2 Duo that I built. It's fine.

I was forced to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 because of instability issues that were solved in Windows 7 64-bit. At the time, Tascam refused to release the Windows 7 driver that we knew already existed from Frontier Design. A dogged but respectful user campaign was able to overcome this, but Tascam declared 'never again'.

As a former computer science prof, I like to keep up with the newest things so I can give advice to family and friends, and sometimes here online. That doesn't mean I will upgrade on my machines that work as intended, only on a spare test machine.

Oh - and salesmen? I drive them crazy too, for a variety of reasons. I actually managed the first retail computer center in northern New York in 1980, so I have some experience on both sides of this.

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.