Only this week I was reading a Windows article on the Device Manager that discussed putting the same device into differing ports actually increasing the number of ports open in the device driver and the benefits of reducing them. In this case USB audio devices. If you show hidden devices in the Device Manager you may indeed find a heap of USB ports not in use. The article suggested deleting those not actually live. Be careful not to delete the ones Windows put there. I’ll see if I can find the article again. I could not find it but it was similar in content to the link Fiddler pointed to.

Another issue with using USB audio interfaces is that often the onboard audio device driver is loaded and on. This can create issues. One can simply disable the onboard sound card.

Last edited by Teunis; 11/01/18 03:33 PM.
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