David, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When I look at the display from Audio MIDI Setup (Utilities folder), it often shows the controller to be one thing and the device to be something entirely different. (These probably parallel the Sound and Speech system preference panels.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Andrea USB pod and the pod hardwired on the NC-7100 are one and the same. They both use the AK5370 USB audio chip. Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc. The best microphones for Speech Recognition See us at: http://www.eMicrophones.com/index.asp See, "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy for the Mac" at: http://www.emicrophones.com/docDetails.asp?DocumentID=39