The audient id14 is an audio interface. USB powered it only has balanced outputs for my powered speakers but the round-trip latency is very good and analog digital converters are supposedly great.
I bought a focusrite ISA one which handles the preamp duties. Probably go line out of that into the line-in of the audient.
I should order the X touch and get everything up and running to take advantage of the post summer creative spirit so I could get a new CD done by Spring.
Cheers
WSS