Running with my old computer a USB digital 7.1 external sound card I was able to either listen to my music through my 7.1 Anthem amplifier or with my Sennheiser wireless analogue standard 3.5 stereo headphones with a 3.5 analogue stereo microphone connected for use with Skype etc without having to change things within the control panel. Does anyone know of any reasonable quality 7. 1 HDMI, coaxial or SPDIF /optical digital plus analogue PCI sound card which would achieve this result? The significant thing about the external 7.1 digital card I was using was that in the control panel despite being both digital and analogue it only showed up as one card unlike for example the Asus Xonar DS card I have installed in my new computer which appeared as both digital and analogue. Hope this makes some sense to someone. Thanks Brian