Well I think that there is absolutly no border
between
"Professional" Audio and "Non-Professional" Audio.
Disagreed ;-) . But there's no border in tech terms.
I often see that amateurs use better equipment than
professionals. Therefore: Agreed at 100%.
I remember my keyboard teacher who earns his money with making
music. He uses very old equipment even with broken keys while
I as a hobbyist buy current hardware a lot.
Just think about it, today you're using mainly
xmms to play
some ogg-files, but suddenly you become a little creative,
und you want to do some drumming with hydrogen. I see no
reason why somebody would screw up his whole configuration
just because he suddenly switched from beeing a "consumer"
to beeing a "professional".
Don't forget that you want to listen your ogg files through
your studio monitor instead of your laptop speakers.
So propably jack is the only way out for the desktop
:)
*sigh* again :)
Best regards
ce