Well, i decided to try Klango, and I'm afraid it's quite a disaster.
I start the program and here Sapi but no sound, then go to logue in and get nothing.
Alternatively, there's a "start in Dx mode" option, which gets me sound and no sapi.
apparently it's been having problems with realtec sound cards, ---- which mine is, ---- though this is the first time I've come up against an audio application that has (and that's counting highly 3D stuff like Monkey business and Sarah).
So sadly no media for me, ---- or anything else for that matter.
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)