I have a 7.1 USB sound card from Startech with 3 discrete 2ch outputs. It's a Startech ICUSBAUDIO7D. It uses a C-Media CM6206 chipset. I have kind of a weird intended use case for it and I don't know ...

I've read a lot of stuff about this going both ways. Thought I'd ask here in case anybody can give me more insight. Basically, some people seem to say, "Unless you're a professional sound engineer, ...