[KeithMoonwannabe]

well to say that it is impressive is a pretty strong statement imo.

I mean think of it like this....

Presonus is the girl next door in the grocery store (yeah she's not bad to look at but she isn't completely grabbing your attention)
the other stuff (RME, MOTU, etc) is like seeing Heidi Klum in the grocery store (everyone stops, stares, and starts to drool in amazement and then you realize you just knocked over a display of $15 a bottle wine and she's laughing at you)

If a piece of gear is going to impress me it needs to completely floor me....nothing I've used by Presonus does that really. It does what it's supposed to but it doesn't really have much of a WOW factor. At least in my humble opinion. Again I'm not saying that they make crap, I just don't think it's a tremendous improvement, perhaps over digidesign but their stuff totally sucks you can tell by reading the specs on paper. I prefer to have some stuff with a little more character and vibe to it than the Presonus things, especially when it comes to the Firepod/Firestudio interfaces.