Hi
I also think that the Genos 2 audio output is not fantastic.
I use a Focusrite 6i6 and audio from that is great
All depends how serious you want to record audio is what it comes down to.
It is all the same these days with products that have multi-things built in.They average out the cost of components.
It is like hi-fi . Separates are better than the all singing and dancing so called hi-fi's.
The quality of the sound from genos is great and if you invest in a daw like Cubase you can use compression, limiting, to make the sound come up to say Cd equivilent mixing and mastering. I'm still not perfect at it but i am having a good go at it and slowly everything starts to improve once things click in. I am 73, going for it as it keeps the brain cells active.
All the best
John
You could go the cheap way and use Audacity. It is good at what it does but as i said, it is all down to how serious you are about recording.