-> > and now m-audio. Here's to German audio excellence! Those cold winters > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I > guess. :) I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones: Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux, if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<- About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup. We had two of these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output. The service on the cards was pretty bad, too. We had to ditch M-Audio and go with RME (Multiface) for the rest of the semester. Matt