[LAU] recommendations for usb sound card?

[Florian Weimer]

* Frank Barknecht:

> Some general remarks: Practically every USB-1.1 soundcard on the
> market (except some M-Audio models) is well supported by ALSA. So I'd
> suggest you check out some online vendors for a card that you like
> feature- and pricewise then g**gle that model with "linux ALSA" added
> and/or check qbik.ch for user comments.

So would an Edirol UA-1EX work and provide decent sound quality (mostly
for output)?  I'm kind of surprised that USB sound is so unproblematic,
but this probably explains why there is so little information on driver
support on the web. 8-)