| I've owned a few firewire interfaces over the years...the Firepod was junk for me on a PC. Lots of dropouts, clicks, pops, whatever. Got rid of it. Briefly tried a Firebox, and it did all the same things. Switched to a MOTU Traveler and it was perfect every day I owned it on both PC and Mac(sold it last week, but not because it wasn't good)...don't buy into the MOTU is for Macs thing...it may have been true 5 or more years ago, but their stuff works great on PCs. DIGI002 has worked great for me, though PT in general can be a bit flaky. The box itself is fine, even when running other software (Samplitude, Vegas, DP, Logic, etc.).
I don't have personal experience with M-Audio, but a friend of mine was just telling me about the the blues screens he get with his 1814...may have been resolved, but I'd research it pretty carefully if you're considering one...
Good luck,
Mike |