| I've got to second the above post about the M-Audio FW410. I was REALLY disappointed with this thing, pops, drop-outs, can't plug it in while your computer is running (or risk ruining your FW buss). Also, some of the knobs were flaky, I had to spin the headphone volume know around about 5 times to get it loud enough to hear anything (and no, i'm not deaf).
I really wanted to like this unit; it's FW powered, so I didn't need a wall-wart, it's got plenty of outs for any kind of crazy routing that I might need for a video project or other unique set up, and it feels like it's pretty well built. But with all it's quirks I just couldn't trust it. It got to the point where I was literately afraid to use it because i didn't want to cook my powerbook's internal FW, if i had a desktop mac or pc with a pci firewire card in it, I might try it again. but if I did have something with PCI card slot, I'd probably just get the delta 10/10 which works like a champ on a friends's pc.
The most stable FW interface I've used is on my Mackie Onyx mixer. someone on GS mentioned that the FW card in the mixer is actually made by Echo, so that would explain why it's a pretty good unit. I know I've never had a problem with it - and now that I'm transitioning to Logic Studio from Pro Tools, I'm hoping to get a lot more use out of it.
Hope this helps. |