There's an annoying latency problem with Audacity that I tried troubleshooting following Audacity's

Since high latency is the problem I was trying to solve, 30 bucks or so seemed like a reasonable gamble to me

This low cost UCA222 gizmo from Behringer did exactly what I hoped it would, and solved a difficult problem which was rendering my expensive new PC more or less useless

Intermittent problems

My only problem at the beginning was that I missed setting up the recording and playback settings in my computer and at first was only recording in mono

I/O is concerned.