[LAU] OT: external sound for linux card advice

[Lorenzo]

  Hi all,

I'm sure this has been discussed many times, so sorry for 
re-iterating... but I guess new drivers and products come out each day, 
so here you go:

I'm looking at external audio cards (for use with my laptop) especially 
to do multichannel (balanced!) output

- Obviusly they should work with linux-jack (ubuntu if there are any 
issues with this distro)
- at least 8 balanced outputs

I'm looking at 
these:http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireWire/index.php possibly in 
the second-hand market and because they are listed as "full support" on 
the ffdao site.

Any other experience advice is very welcome

Bests,
Lorenzo.