Ok Joden, I'm trying to be gentle here but you're not making it easy. What kind of old laptop are you talking about that doesn't have USB2? 2.0 has been out for how long now? Of course everything is USB2 and most newer ones are USB3. You're using the old fake strawman argument by bringing up USB1 when nobody is using that anymore. We're talking about recent lappys here, not antiques.

As to the sound quality of the headphone outs there's tons of detailed tech articles about that. The sound quality is excellent coming out of a good laptop. And I don't mean a good laptop bought this year, I'm talking say, the last 3-5 years.

I said nothing about using a keyboard as an interface, I was only referring to using a keyboard as a sound source through USB. Works great.

The last point is ground hum. That's been talked about here for years too. Run it on the battery or pick up a fifteen buck adapter, problem solved.

Sheesh buddy.

Bob

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